Tim Murphy is his name.
The current world chess champion is Viswanathan Anand
The answer is Garry Kasparov.
The women's chess champion for 2008 was Alexandra Kosteniuk.
Chess World Champion
Viswanathan Anand is the current World Chess Champion as well as an Indian Grand Chess-master .
Bobby Fischer is not the current World Chess Champion. Anand is.
Boris Vasilievich Spassky , he was the 10th World Chess Champion .
TRUEBobby Fischer became world chess champion in 1972.
The brilliant Paul Morphy was both. He was recognized as the world chess champion but before there was a formal champion.
The "Lion of madras" Viswanathan Anand of India is the current World Chess Champion .
the score from Chess was written by Tim Rice