Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius, has died of kidney failure at a hospital in Iceland. He was 64. Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov talks with Melissa Block about Fischer's ...

Former world chess champion, America's Bobby Fischer was pictured in this Aug. 10, 1971, photo at an unknown location in the US. Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by ...

REYKJAVIK — Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was 64.

Bobby Fischer, the chess genius who careened during his life from Cold War hero to eccentric international exile, died yesterday in Iceland, where he had lived since 2005. He was 64. Fischer's ...

Nikolai Krogius in 1970. A grandmaster himself, he helped Boris Spassky become a world champion and was part of his support team when he lost the title to Bobby Fischer. Keystone Press/Alamy ...

LONDON - A British chess grandmaster is convinced that Bobby Fischer, one of the game's most legendary and elusive figures, is playing again - anonymously on the Internet. "I am 99 percent sure ...

Searching for the Next Bobby Fischer, the U.S. Finds Fabi Fabiano Caruana, 26, has dedicated much of his young life to chess.

Reigning chess world champion Boris Spassky, left, of Russia, and international grandmaster Bobby Fischer of the United States, are seen during a game at the XIX World Chess Olympiad in Siegen ...

Mr. Evans wrote the introductory analysis for each game in Fischer's 1969 book, "My 60 Memorable Games." The two had become close after meeting at a chess function in Montreal in the mid-1950s.

Reigning chess world champion Boris Spassky, left, of Russia, and international grandmaster Bobby Fischer of the United States, are seen during a game at the XIX World Chess Olympiad in Siegen ...

Reigning chess world champion Boris Spassky, left, of Russia, and international grandmaster Bobby Fischer of the United States, are seen during a game at the XIX World Chess Olympiad in Siegen ...