LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bringing American chess champion Bobby Fischer's story to the big screen posed a challenge for the filmmakers of "Pawn Sacrifice." How would they make a film about chess ...

The hardest type of guy for an actor to play is one without charisma. That’s the challenge faced by Tobey Maguire in Edward Zwick’s , which tells the story of Cold War–era chess champ and totally ...

The Reel Story: Toby Maguire plays eccentric socially awkward chess champion Bobby Fischer, who played Russian champ Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber) at the height of the Cold War, in this well-done ...

LOS ANGELES – 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 ...

David Fincher is making his next move, on Columbia Pictures’ chess drama “Pawn Sacrifice.” The director is attached to the life story of American chess icon Bobby Fischer leading up to his historic ...

The actor plays Bobby Fischer in the biopic Pawn Sacrifice, which opens Sept. 25. The film chronicles the chess icon’s troubled rise to global fame at the height of ...