Kicking butts on the boards since his child prodigy and teen years, world chess champion Bobby Fischer had a love/hate relationship with authority throughout his life. This film chronicles his rise to stardom as arguably the greatest chess player of all time—a celebrity with full Wild World of Sports coverage—and his subsequent decline into madness and paranoia. After winning the World Championship from Boris Spassky in 1972, a Cold War match followed by the world, Fischer gradually became a recluse, emerging occasionally for some chess prima donna exploits, including a 1992 rematch against Spassky in an embargoed Yugoslavia that led to an arrest warrant and lifelong fugitive status. How did he end up a disheveled exile in Iceland and why? The film reveals all in fine fashion. Pawn to king four anyone?  DS