Bobby Fischer | The Guardian

HAMPSTEAD THEATRE, LONDON Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer’s 1972 match is a proxy war in this intriguing but overcomplicated chess drama There has already been a musical, Chess , inspired by ...

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/dec/06/ravens-spassky-vs-fischer-review

The focus on male stars such as Magnus Carlsen obscures the brilliance of female chess players. It’s time to raise their profile This was the year that I, a lapsed chess fan, rediscovered my ...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/20/world-chess-championship-women-magnus-carlsen

Miami-born, Brooklyn-raised Caruana wins candidates in Berlin Caruana, 25, will face Magnus Carlsen for world title in November No American has held world championship since Fischer in 1972 Th...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/mar/27/fabiano-caruana-magnus-carlsen-candidates-tournament

Norwegian retains his world title after thrilling tiebreak and wows a global audience looking forward to more of the same Just after Magnus Carlsen had defeated Sergey Karjakin to retain his wo...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2016/dec/01/magnus-carlsen-chess-norweigian-wolrd-champion-sergey-karjakin

Russian chess grandmaster who was also an international concert pianist Mark Taimanov, who has died aged 90, reached the top of two separate professions. As concert pianists, he and his first wi...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/nov/29/mark-taimanov-obituary

In current political climate, offshore companies of celebrities including X Factor boss and late film-maker raise questions Panama Papers: all the revelations so far There is nothing illegal ab...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/06/panama-papers-reveal-offshore-dealings-stars

Bobby Fischer never achieved 2800, the super-elite rating for the very strongest grandmasters. At his 1972 peak during his match with Boris Spassky at Reykjavik Fischer reached 2785, which reflec...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/feb/20/magnus-carlsen-rating-bobby-fischer

It was the game of the cold war. Now, with Tobey Maguire playing Bobby Fischer and a documentary about blind Indian globetrotters desperate to become grandmasters, chess is finding a new audience...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/18/tobey-maguire-bobby-fischer-pawn-sacrifice-chess

Tobey Maguire makes a decent fist of playing the prickly chess grandmaster, but Edward Zwick’s unsubtle film never delves beneath the surface of his paranoid psychology It’s easy to be wron...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/10/pawn-sacrifice-review-tobey-maguire-toronto-film-festival

The world championship between Vishy Anand and Magnus Carlsen is finely poised, but sadly chess is still ignored In his very funny short story Career Move, Martin Amis imagines a world where th...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/nov/14/chess-world-championship-fallen-out-of-love

Fischer beats Boris Spassky in a gruelling championship series, ending 24 years of Soviet chess domination It would be an exaggeration to suggest that Iceland went wild when Bobby Fischer finall...

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/sep/02/fischer-spassky-world-chess-championships-1972

Andrew Paulson, who has won the world championship media and marketing rights for the next 10 years, has big plans Most things in chess need to be seen through the prism of Reykjavík 1972 , whe...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/jul/12/chess-impresario-fischer-spassky

He died four years ago, but interest in the American legend remains strong. There was wide praise for the 2011 film Bobby Fischer against the World, while new details have just emerged of an epis...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/mar/02/bobby-fischer-new-information

It's not the micropigs, handbag dogs and dwarf horses that are the freaks – it's their owners Finally, some good news about growth. Or rather the lack of it. Whereas 10 years ago the pet fashi...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/nov/30/super-tiny-animals-tv-review

Le Quattro Volte; The Beaver; Potiche; Bobby Fischer Against the World The greatest problem with LE QUATTRO VOLTE (2010, New Wave, U) is figuring out how to describe it in a manner that doesn't ...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/oct/09/quattro-volte-potiche-fischer-dvd

The game looks a mess – until Fischer exercises the clarity and control for which he's renowned FISCHER-SAIDY USA CH. 1966. WHITE TO MOVE. RB This week the boot is on the other foot and it's...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/sep/19/ronan-bennett-daniel-king-chess

How to break up this static but firm defence? Bobby Fischer shows the way ACEVEDO-FISCHER, SIEGEN 1970. Classic Bobby Fischer victories often involve the elimination of all counterplay before ...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/sep/12/chess-ronan-bennett-daniel-king

Can you think of a way to win in this fiendish situation? ADDISON-FISCHER, NEW YORK 1963. BLACK TO PLAY. This game is from the US Championship 1963/4 that Bobby Fischer won with the phenomena...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/sep/05/ronan-bennett-daniel-king-chess

With the Bobby Fischer Against The World DVD arriving soon, it's a good time to study his inspired play GLIGORIC-FISCHER, SIEGEN 1970. BLACK TO PLAY. If you didn't manage to see the excellent ...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/aug/29/ronan-bennett-daniel-king-chess

During the summer of 1972 the world was riveted by the cold war drama of the chess games in Iceland between the Soviet chess master Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer. I reme...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/jul/17/bobby-fischer-against-the-world-review