What may be more surprising is that chess sets have become popular holiday gifts for the first time since Bobby Fischer won the World Chess Championship in 1972, defeating Boris Spassky.

When the American Bobby Fischer challenged the Russian Boris Spassky for the World Chess Championship in 1972 the media looked on in fascination. It seemed the Cold War was being played out in ...

(BBC archive interview with Bobby Fischer) At the time ... no game so closely compares to a set-piece battle as chess. Two opposing armies line up to march across the board, foot-soldier pawns ...

(JTA) — The host of a popular game show on Bulgarian public TV quoted on air the anti-Semitic rantings of the late chess master Bobby Fischer, then apologized the following day, a day after the ...

(BBC archive interview with Bobby Fischer) At the time ... no game so closely compares to a set-piece battle as chess. Two opposing armies line up to march across the board, foot-soldier pawns ...