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US chess champion Bobby Fischer and the two "K"s -- Garry Kasparov and Anatoli Karpov -- have co-written the modern history of the game, with a chapter devoted to East-West confrontation. In the 1970s ...

Fischer died Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said. There was no immediate word on the cause of death. Born in Chicago and raised in Brooklyn, Robert James Fischer ...

The rematch between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in 1992 looked at a bigger picture and carried a strong political message. It was organised 20 years after Fischer had sort of redefined game-play ...

Garry Kasparov never played Bobby Fischer and never will. "Wait a minute," says Bohumir Stedron, author of an article titled "Forecasts of Artificial Intelligence,"don't be so sure." In the ...

A vast global game of geopolitical chess seemed to be hanging in the balance the morning I met with Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess genius whom many regard as the greatest player of all time. What’s ...

In February 2013 the Investigative Committee of Russia gave Garry Kasparov's 76-year-old mother a call. They were looking for her son. Kasparov had been one of the nation’s brightest lights for ...

And I'm Melissa Block. He was the youngest U.S. chess champion at age 14, a grandmaster at 15. Bobby Fischer has died in Iceland. He was 64. In 1972, Fischer faced off against Russian world champion ...

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. MELISSA BLOCK, host: And I'm Melissa Block. He was the youngest U.S. chess champion at age 14, a grandmaster at 15. Bobby Fischer has ...