NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice. In the summer of 1972, the world's attention was ...

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Is anybody better at playing a dotty, preoccupied genius than Tobey Maguire? His brow’s worried furrows and unsettlingly inward-gazing eyes made him convincingly uncanny as the natural born writer in ...

Even if your knowledge of chess is limited to that scene in the first Harry Potter movie, there's one chess player whose name you probably know. Bobby Fischer was such an iconic American player that ...

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 are no more ...

Perri Nemiroff is the 2025 Press Award winner at the ICG Publicists Awards. She's the senior producer at Collider where she hosts and produces the interview series, Collider Ladies Night, a show ...

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Gaurav Dutta, chess fan: For me, the greatest sacrifice(s) would be from “The Polish Immortal Game” (Glucksberg, or Glinksberg, depending on your ...

Ah, the vagaries of movie releasing. As TIFF winds down, this column was going to focus on a drama that premiered at the festival this past week, About Ray, whose subject matter is timely: a glimpse ...

Great genius and everyday happiness often seem mutually exclusive. For the latest example of that sad-but-truism, see “Pawn Sacrifice,” director Edward Zwick’s biopic of chess champion Bobby Fischer, ...

It’s sort of amazing that it’s taken so long for Hollywood to get around to dramatizing a fascinatingly bizarre event that riveted the world’s attention in 1972 between the Watergate break-in and the ...