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Jan 19, 2008 · Jan. 19, 2008 12 AM PT. Los Angeles Times Staff Writer. Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic American chess genius who became a Cold War hero with his 1972 defeat of Soviet champion Boris Spassky but...
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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...
No. 1 (July 1971) Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won with an 11–0 score, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament.
Jan 19, 2008 · By Bruce Weber. Jan. 19, 2008. Bobby Fischer, the Chicago-born, Brooklyn-bred genius who became one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, died Thursday in Reykjavik, Iceland....
Jan 18, 2008 · Fischer died Thursday of kidney failure in Reykjavik after a long illness, friend and spokesman Gardar Sverrisson said Friday. “A giant of the chess world is gone,” said Fridrik Olafsson, an ...
Jan 18, 2008 · The controversial former world chess champion, Bobby Fischer, has died in Iceland at the age of 64. The US-born player, who became famous for beating Cold War Soviet rival Boris Spassky in 1972, died of an unspecified illness, his spokesman said.
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Jan 19, 2008 · REYKJAVIK, Iceland (Associated Press) Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a cold war hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his Amercian citizenship, has died. He was 64. Fisher died in a Reykjavik hospital on Thursday of kidney failure after a long illness, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson...
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