We wonder if Kasparov will ever make a comeback or if some fantastic chess prodigy in Cleveland or the South Bronx will become the next Bobby Fischer.

FORBES: Magazine Article

She once beat Bobby Fischer, albeit in a friendly game.

ECONOMIST: Mona Karff

Fred Waitzkin is the author of Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess, and he has recently completed a first novel, The Dream Merchant.

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Bobby Fischer went one step further.

ECONOMIST: World chess championship

Let me begin by revealing a personal secret: Between 1983 and 1994, I made a reputation writing books (including Searching for Bobby Fischer) and national magazine pieces about chess--indeed, I became lost in chess, blissfully addicted to writing about the personalities and intricacies of the royal game, much as many men become chess addicts.

FORBES: Magazine Article

With that elderly ailing yachtsman, Sir Francis Chichester, safely where he belongs (in hospital) we can devote our undivided attention to that other mid-summer non-event: moody Bobby Fischer, the capitalist world's money-grubbing little horror, playing, or not playing, chess against sporty Boris Spassky, whose sportiness vanishes at a flick from the Soviet machine behind him.

ECONOMIST: From the archive