London's forthcoming Candidates tournament features the world's best, including the highest-ranked player in history, Magnus Carlsen

In 1962 Bobby Fisher claimed "the Russians have fixed world chess". He was certainly paranoid but was proved to be partially right

Some of the game's greatest have had trouble playing against the clock. Not so Bobby Fischer, who was a lord of time.

Bobby Fischer was a chess phenomenon who squandered his talent. But we should remember the talent