Our first glimpse of Bobby Fischer in “Pawn Sacrifice” is not the chess grandmaster’s proudest moment. The year is 1972, when Fischer took on Soviet champion Boris Spassky for the world ...

Director Liz Garbus’s achievement is in making Bobby Fischer's story palpable to an audience that may have been too young to witness Fischer capture American pop culture like some Michael ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice. In the summer of 1972, the world's attention was ...

The movie pitch practically writes itself: “‘Sunset Boulevard’ meets ‘Searching for Bobby Fischer’ — Norma Desmond, with enough chess smarts to slay the Soviets and Deep Blue.

Bobby Fischer on screen, and a chess movie from New Zealand. Two new chess films will hit the screens, one starring Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer and the other, and award-winning film called The ...

Our first glimpse of Bobby Fischer in "Pawn Sacrifice" is not the chess grandmaster's proudest moment. The year is 1972, when Fischer took on Soviet champion Boris Spassky for the world title in ...

In advance of its world premiere tonight in Toronto, Pawn Sacrifice, Ed Zwick’s movie about erratic chess genius Bobby Fischer and his 1972 matchup with Soviet champion Boris Spassky, was picked ...

Too Big to Fail HBO Bobby Fischer Against the World HBO In the last few weeks, America has had the chance to see two disturbing movies about our warping emphasis on heroes. Both of them played on ...

They were making a movie of my book, “Searching for Bobby Fischer,” and on this day they were shooting scenes at the same tables that I had so ecstatically and tremulously visited hundreds of ...

Bobby Fischer has been swindled out of a "vast fortune" in royalties by book publishers, movie studios, and clock manufacturers (yes, clock manufacturers), who have brazenly pilfered his brand ...

'Bobby Fischer Against the World' explores the paranoia-fueled life of the intellectually brilliant chess champion.