A look at the Tempest Chess Clock, courtesy of Tempo Games LLC. It works well with a lot of phones as you siimply activate the app, push the phone down into the platform, and allow the motion ...

Fischer unveiled the new chess at a 1996 press conference in Buenos Aires. The idea was simple: With so many possible starting positions, Chess960 -- or "Fischer Random Chess" -- takes rote ...

In an event staged to help finance his trip to the U.S. National Open Chess Tournament, the 13-year-old Fischer (right) took on 21 opponents, 20 of them adults, in a YMCA in Jersey City, New Jersey.