Bobby Fischer, when he was 12 years old, playing in a match at the Manhattan Chess Club on Sept. 14, 1957. (Sam Falk/The New York Times) Brilliant player, bad moves Recounting Bobby Fischer’s tragic path from prodigy to pariahBy...
Interview With Dr. Frank Brady by David Friedman
Interview With Dr. Frank Brady, Author of Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall–From America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of MadnessSunday, February 6, 2011By David Friedman In 1965, Dr. Frank Brady wrote Profile of a Prodigy, the definitive...
The troubled genius
The Troubled Genius of Bobby FischerJanuary 30, 2011 One night in 1960, author and chess fan Frank Brady sat down for dinner in a Greenwich Village tavern. Across the table from him was Bobby Fischer, just a teenager but...
The Troubled King of Chess
The Troubled King of Chess: PW Talks with Frank BradyBy Will BoisvertJan 10, 2011 In Endgame, Chess Life founding editor Frank Brady explores the brilliant, bizarre life of Bobby Fischer. Bobby Fischer was the only chess champion the man...
New Fischer Movie
CPS Professor’s Book to Become HBO Film on “Chess Match of the Century,” Fischer vs. SpasskyApril 07, 2008 When World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer died in January 2008, the media from all over the world immediately sought out Frank...
Brilliant but eccentric
Cavett and chess buffs replay Bobby Fischer’s storyBy Caroline N. Jackson A memorial for Bobby Fischer at the Marshall Chess Club last Sunday drew a standing-room-only crowd and Dick Cavett, the former TV talk-show host, who had some of...
Dr. Frank Brady: “Profile of a Prodigy”
01/24/2008SJU prof remembers chess genius FischerBy Alex Christodoulides The St. John’s University professor who wrote the first biography of chess champion Bobby Fischer in 1964 spoke about the polarizing genius who died last week in Reykjavik, Iceland, at the...