Now 59, Bobby Fischer has become a reclusive ... wrote to the New York field office in September 1958. After beating Boris Spassky for the world title in 1972, Fischer dropped out of competition.

Wednesday night saw perhaps the most popular discussion of “mate” since Bobby Fischer took on Boris Spassky in 1972. This time, though, it wasn’t about chess but about whether Mets reliever ...

It was fought in Iceland and it was a chess match - one between the American Bobby Fischer and the Russian Boris Spassky. "I'm just going to go in there. I'm not going stay up nights worrying.