The Fischer Impact
Where have you gone, Bobby Fischer? May 17, 2015 By Telly Halkias Many years ago, while on vacation in Mallorca, I bought a chessboard, an inlaid mahogany slate with tournament-caliber playing pieces. The purchase was impulsive, and a nostalgic...
The Boy who would be the King of Chess
Shelby Lyman on Chess: A Fateful Meeting Sunday, April 26, 2015 (Published in print: Sunday, April 26, 2015) In 1954, an American chess team suffered its second of three brutal postwar defeats at the hands of a group of...
Facing Bobby Fischer
Facing Bobby Fischer New In Chess magazine 2015#3, that was published this week, has a 16-page article about Bobby Fischer. Editor-in-chief Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam examines a new book about the American World Champion. Bobby Fischer, Triumph and...
Where did the Match of Century take place?
Bobby Fischer Chess GameFEBRUARY 10, 2015 14:44UPDATED: FEBRUARY 10, 2015 14:53 Q: Wasn’t the championship chess match with Bobby Fischer also played in the historic Peace House? Robert W. Quelch A: The World Chess Championship match between Fischer and...
Mind-Body Connection
Shelby Lyman on Chess: Mind-Body ConnectionSunday, February 8, 2015 (Published in print: Sunday, February 8, 2015) Bobby Fischer is revered for his mastery of chess. According to Garry Kasparov, he was a decade or so ahead of his time....
Unbreakable record?
High school student, Bobby Fischer wins U.S. chess championship in 1958 14-years-old Bobby Fischer becomes the youngest player to ever win the U.S. chess championship, setting him on the road to becoming a world champion. NEW YORK DAILY NEWSWednesday,...
Chess tournament is a physical trial
Shelby Lyman on Chess: Always BobbySunday, December 2014 A chess tournament is a physical trial. Even a single game — particularly a hard-fought one that can last five or six hours — can extend competitors to their limit and...
The greatest non-conformist in chess
Shelby Lyman on Chess: A Non-ConformistSunday, November 2, 2014 (Published in print: Sunday, November 2, 2014) Bobby Fischer, as we previously wrote, was an outlier tuned with steel consistency to an inner voice. In the words of Ralph Waldo...
Fischer makes no compromises, accepts no second-bests
No CompromisesSunday, October 26, 2014 (Published in print: Sunday, October 26, 2014) Most of us steer a course between independence and conformity. Not so with Bobby Fischer, who defeated Boris Spassky in a now legendary 1972 world championship match...