“These handwritten notes from the World Champion and winner of the historic tournament,
Bobby Fischer give an insight into one of the most significant speed chess tournaments of the 20th century.
This is a wonderful day, what goes around comes around." (This scene and others will be in Liz Garbus's film
Bobby Fischer against the World, which will be shown this summer.)
THE TOPIC:
Bobby Fischer is one of the archetypal prodigies.
Whereas the doctor at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital declared
Bobby Fischer healthy, the doctor at Kings County told my mother that Robert should be hospitalized immediately, and that he would probably have to live in a mental hospital for the rest of his life.
Josh Waitzkin, eight-time national chess champion, world champion martial artist, and subject of the film Searching for
Bobby Fischer, has written a book distilling his experience of the road to mastery.
Summary: Twenty years after I first saw him, tall and gangling and infinitely appealing, I finally sat down, alone, with
Bobby Fischer. I wanted to talk about him.
NEW YORK -
Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players in the world, has died, a close family friend, Gardar Sverrisson, confirmed Friday, according to the New York Times' online edition.
A LEADING figure in British chess last night paid tribute to former World Champion
Bobby Fischer, who died age 64 in hospital in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik on Thursday night.
Written by British chess Grandmaster John Emms, Starting Out: King's Indian Attack is an in-depth guide for intermediate to advanced chess players to the King's Indian Attack, a favorite chess strategy of the legendary
Bobby Fischer, among others including world-class Grandmaster Alexander Morozevich.
Bulgaria to invite chess master
Bobby Fischer to competition
Chess player
Bobby Fischer, who is wanted by the US for violating sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by playing a chess match there in 1992, has arrived in Iceland.