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Bobby Fischer Against the World is a documentary feature film that explores the life of chess Grandmaster and 11th World Champion Bobby Fischer. [1] It incorporates interviews with chess players Anthony Saidy, Larry Evans, Sam Sloan, Susan Polgar, Garry Kasparov, Asa Hoffmann, Friðrik Ólafsson, Lothar Schmid and others.
In October 2009, the biographical film Bobby Fischer Live [581] was released, with Damien Chapa directing and starring as Fischer. In 2011, documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus released Bobby Fischer Against the World, which explores the life of Fischer, with interviews from Garry Kasparov, Anthony Saidy, and others. [582]
BBC award-winning journalists, from their book Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time (HarperCollins, 2004): Fischer, some will maintain, was the outstanding player in chess history, though there are powerful advocates too for Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, and Kasparov. Many chess players ...
Ever since his meeting with American legend Bobby Fischer in Sveti Stefan in 1992, Ten Geuzendam kept a special interest in the 11th Chess World Champion. Following the death of Fischer in 2008, he travelled to Iceland to speak to the people who had been close to Fischer while he lived there. The result was a 22-page article in New In Chess 2008/2.
Bobby Fischer Interview. 2573: October 9, 1972 () Joey Bishop (guest host), Pat Paulsen: Della ... Bobby Fischer: José Feliciano: 2595: November 9, 1972 ()
Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical psychological drama film about Bobby Fischer, a chess grandmaster and the eleventh world champion.It follows Fischer's challenge against top Soviet chess grandmasters during the Cold War and culminating in the World Chess Championship 1972 match versus Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, Iceland.
The Great Chess Movie (French: Jouer sa vie) is a 1982 Canadian film directed by Gilles Carle and Camille Coudari, starring Bobby Fischer, Viktor Korchnoi, Anatoly Karpov and Ljubomir Ljubojević among other notable chess players. The 80-minute documentary is produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Hoffmann is interviewed in the documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World [3] along with Anthony Saidy, Larry Evans, and Susan Polgar. In 1987 he was profiled in The New York Times. [4] The winner of the New York City junior championship in 1962 and the first army championship in 1966, by the age of 21 Hoffmann was ranked number 21 in the nation.