Bobby Fischer

In 1972, he famously hosted the live broadcast of the World Chess Championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky.

Which Russian chess player lost the world championship to Bobby Fischer in 1972?

With the defeat, Caruana missed the chance of being the first US chess champion since Bobby Fischer who won the title in 1972.

In 1972, kids wanted to be US player Bobby Fischer (right).

A time when regular people played the game with regular purpose and looked up to chess's best, like Bobby Fischer or Garry Kasparov or Paul Morphy.

WHEN the American chess genius Bobby Fischer played his World Chess Championship against the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in 1972 the atmosphere was electric - across the globe.

BORN ORNETTE Coleman, US jazz musician, 1930 YURI Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut, 1934, above BOBBY Fischer, US chess champion, 1943 DIED JOHANN Pachelbel, German organist, 1706 MENACHEM Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, 1992 JOHN Profumo, British politician, 2006, above

Based on the true story of American chess legend, Robert James Fischer who was known as "Bobby Fischer", the film Pawn Sacrifice triumphs both as a character study and as a window into history.

Random chess, also known as Chess 960 because of the 960 possible openings, is a brainchild of the late American GM Bobby Fischer, who conceptualized it in 1993 it while traveling in Hungary with close friend Torre, head of the MP Chess Organization which is running the nine-round event, part of Pacquiao's 37th birthday celebration on Dec.

During an unexpected rendezvous in Iceland, she sings Buddy Holly songs with chess legend Bobby Fischer. Things are equally uncanny on the homefront.

Tobey Maguire conducted heavy research to portray chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer. "It's been about 10 years since I first started looking into this as a film.