After an international hunt that lasted more than a decade, U.S. authorities have finally nabbed a slippery fugitive from justice: former chess wunderkind BOBBY FISCHER, 61. (We feel safer already.) ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting July 11th, 2000 - Buy Maybe It's Better not to Win - Scoring Searching for Bobby Fischer DVD ...

The capacity of movies to be used as teaching tools has recently been captured in the publication of Teaching, Learning and Schooling in Film: Reel Education, edited by Daniel P. Liston and Ian Parker ...

Josh Waitzkin is just a typical American boy interested in baseball when one day he challenges his father at chess and wins. Showing unusual precocity at the outdoor matches at Washington Square in ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.

In Steve Zaillian's first directing effort, Mantegna plays the real-life Fred Waitzkin, a slightly overbearing but well-meaning father who wants his 8-year-old prodigy son to succeed in the ...

A short documentary on the musical score of the 1993 film "Searching for Bobby Fischer" narrated by Brian Satterwhite included as an extra with the home release of the film.

At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including Bobby Fischer and another in an unlikely turn of events. By Dylan Loeb McClain When Mr. Spassky, a ...