Harry Benson's photos – taken at the height of Fischer's powers – break down more of his barriers than anything written about him to date.

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(CNN)-- Bobby Fischer was a master chess player, a man who once seemed the epitome of control. But Fischer's personal life was often chaotic and marked by mystery. One of those mysteries seems of ...

The 1972 World Chess Championship saw Bobby Fischer of the US challenge the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky. Fifty years later, ... Spassky to win," recalled Icelander Helgi Olafson, then a 16-year-old ...

FM: From “Searching for Bobby Fischer” to “The Queen’s Gambit,” movies and TV shows about chess seem to tap into a fundamental human fascination with strategy and genius, and the ...