The Latest Breaking News from Bobby Fischer

A Harrow schoolgirl lowers the age record for a national women’s champion by more than four years after sharing the crown

The former world top-10 grandmaster edged out his rivals by half a point after a tense final round at Assisi, concluding a year where England 50+ and 65+ players also won two world and one European team championships

The 19-year-old will play at Jerusalem in his first event since he launched his $100m lawsuit against Magnus Carlsen and others

Round three between the pair disappeared off the radar in the quarter-finals of the online Julius Baer Generation Cup

The 19-year-old grandmaster, whose win against the world champion led to Magnus Carlsen withdrawing from a tournament for the first time, says there is a campaign against him

For better and for worse, Bobby Fischer's brilliant play and off-board antics were a catalyst for chess to achieve mainstream attention.

Armenia lead after seven of the 11 rounds while six teams are half a point behind. Magnus Carlsen has 5.5/6 but his Norwegian team mates have underperformed.

The game fulfils a range of narrative purposes — from being a stand-in for warfare and statecraft to symbolising ambition, decadence, upward mobility, and so on

In the run-up to the 44th Chess Olympiad, the kings and queens from this Mecca of chess speak on how the game has developed in the city since the 1960s

The 31-year-old Norwegian will target a 2900 rating after announcing he will not play Ian Nepomniachtchi in 2023. The Russian and Ding Liren, world Nos 3 and 2, will meet for the vacant crown

Fifty years ago, the Cold War was transposed to a chessboard as Bobby Fischer of the United States took on defending world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in a thrilling East-West clash dubbed the "match of the century". Some 50 million TV viewers tuned into the two-month-long tussle…