Bobby Fischer, Enfant Terrible of Chess, Dies at 64
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The difficult, reclusive chess master became an American hero at the height of the Cold War, then thumbed his nose at his country and renounced his citizenship.
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In a bold gambit worthy of the chess  champion he once was, Bobby Fischer plans to wed a four-time  Japan great in the hope of avoiding deportation home to the  United States, where he is wanted for breaking sanctions.
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Bobby Fischer, the chess genius who careened during his life from Cold War hero to eccentric international exile, died Thursday in Iceland, where he has lived since 2005. He was 64.
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Jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson dies aged 82, according to Canadian media reports.
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Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer has died aged 64, Icelandic media report.
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer  has appealed after a Tokyo court rejected his bid to halt  deportation procedures from Japan, a fate he is also trying to  escape by the more romantic move of wedding a Japan chess  great.
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Japan issued a deportation order on  Tuesday against former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, who  is wanted in the United States for defying sanctions, but his  lawyer immediately filed an appeal, blocking the move.
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Bobby Fischer, the eccentric genius who became America's only world chess champion by humbling the Soviet Union's best but who spent his last years as a fugitive from U.S. authorities, has died at 64.
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Reclusive chess genius Bobby Fischer was buried Monday in a private ceremony at a churchyard in southern Iceland, a television station reported.
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US News, NEW YORK - A teenager from New York state, who just became the youngest US national chess champion since Bobby Fischer in 1958, says he is âmore saneâ than his troubled predecessor.
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Fugitive chess master Bobby Fischer, who  is fighting deportation to the United States, on Friday asked  Japan to allow him to go to Iceland, which has offered him a  home.
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Japan on Tuesday ordered the deportation  of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, wanted at home in  the United States for breaking sanctions, rejecting his demand  for protection as a political refugee.
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A court in Japan rejects former chess champion Bobby Fischer's request to halt  his deportation to the US.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 24 -- A Russian man known as the "Chessboard Killer" because he wanted to commit a murder for each of the 64 squares on the chessboard was convicted Wednesday of killing 48 people, most of them in a Moscow park.
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Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer, famous for a Cold War showdown, has died aged 64.
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A terminally-ill Indian chess champion who has been the focus of a euthanasia debate, dies in hospital.
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Oscar Peterson, who sat atop the world of jazz piano for decades with his driving two-handed swing, technical wizardry and rapid-fire solos, has died, a friend of the artist said on Monday. He was 82.