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Former chess champion Bobby Fisher is deadFormer chess champion Bobby Fischer dead at 64
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer, the brilliant, troubled former chess champion, has died, a spokesman said Friday. He was 64. Fischer spokesman Gardar Sverrisson said Fischer died in a Reykjavik hospital on Thursday. There was no immediate word on cause of death. U.S.-born Fischer, a fierce critic of his homeland who renounced his U.S. citizenship, moved to Iceland in 2005. He was world famous for defeating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in 1972. The Chicago-born, Brooklyn, N.Y.-reared Fischer was wanted in the United States for playing a 1992 rematch against Cold War rival Spassky in Yugoslavia in defiance of international sanctions. SOURCE |
| obmar |
not many remember fisher vs us govt. he proudly said that he will not pay tax on the proceeds of his secong win against the russian chess player. |
| The Inquisitor |
He was a true phenomenon when I was growing up and one of the reasons I was passionate for the sport for years thereafter. I remember the match with Boris. There were many of us glued to the radio and reading the newspapers everyday of the match.
Few people know that Fischer was not supposed to play in the championship that year. In order to qualify, one had to have won the US Open Chess Championship the year before. Bobby didn't even play for it that year. In order to give him a chance in the championship. the Open winner and all the other participants in the Open had to decline their invitation first. btw, he was a fantastic bowler too who boasted a 200-point average. |
| obmar |
dont know he bowled too.
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