LOS ANGELES – No sports fan need be reminded of the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, but what about the agony of victory, the unraveling that can occur when your triumph is so complete there ...

He’s largely forgotten now, but in his day chess champion Bobby Fischer was legendary. A whiz kid with minimal social skills but prodigious competitive talent, Fischer was show-offy when he won, a ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - There might have been something more nerve-wracking than being an opponent to world chess champion Bobby Fischer, and that was being the mercurial man's minder. "Pawn Sacrifice," a ...

Throughout the paranoid confusion of his life, chess prodigy Bobby Fischer’s mental health was confronted by a perfect storm of nascent megalomania, boisterous pseudo-wartime rhetoric, the pressure of ...

David Fincher is making his next move, on Columbia Pictures’ chess drama “Pawn Sacrifice.” The director is attached to the life story of American chess icon Bobby Fischer leading up to his historic ...

The hardest type of guy for an actor to play is one without charisma. That’s the challenge faced by Tobey Maguire in Edward Zwick’s , which tells the story of Cold War–era chess champ and totally ...

To like this movie, you'll need to be someone who enjoys a good chess montage, or Tobey Maguire, or both. (Both would be ideal.) The story of prodigious, cantankerous chess champ Bobby Fischer feels ...

He's largely forgotten now, but in his day, chess champion Bobby Fischer was legendary. A whiz kid with minimal social skills but prodigious competitive talent, he was considered the Bob Dylan of the ...