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Jan 17, 2008 · Bobby Fischer is the first and only American world chess champion in history. Many consider him to be among the greatest chess players of all time, as well as the most famous. Fischer sparked an entire generation of chess players, especially in the United States and Iceland.
Jan 19, 2008 · Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic American chess genius who became a Cold War hero with his 1972 defeat of Soviet champion Boris Spassky but fell from grace in later decades when he became a recluse...
Jan 18, 2008 · Jan. 18, 2008. Bobby Fischer, the iconoclastic genius who was one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, died on Thursday in a hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland. He was 64. Gardar...
May 24, 2007 · Biography of Bobby Fischer. billwall. Updated: Sep 7, 2011, 5:09 AM | 9 | Chess Players. Robert James (Bobby) Fischer was born at 2:39 pm on March 9, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois (Michael Reese hospital) to Regina Wender Fischer Pustan (born in Switzerland of Jewish parents on March 31, 1913) and Hans-Gerhardt Fischer (born September 28, 1908).
May 25, 2011 · May 25, 20112:14 PM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. 37-Minute Listen. Playlist. Chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer pictured in 1971, at age 28. AP. The late Bobby Fischer was a chess prodigy who grew...
World Chess. Hall of Fame. Inducted 2001. As the 11th World Champion from 1972-75, Bobby Fischer interrupted the Cold War Soviet hegemony of chess. His phenomenal skill was apparent from an early age. He won the U.S. Open in 1957 and was the youngest person to gain first place in the U.S. Chess Championship in 1957/58.
Jul 19, 2022 · GM Bobby Fischer is a legendary and mysterious chess figure—the boy from Brooklyn who single-handedly took down an empire. A chess genius, a champion, and a troubled mind, Fischer was undoubtedly a unique character. Fischer etched his name in history by defeating GM Boris Spassky to become the only American...
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