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Jan 19, 2008 · “It was Bobby Fischer who had, single-handedly, made the world recognize that chess on its highest level was as competitive as football, as thrilling as a duel to the death, as aesthetically ...
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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.
- Robert James Fischer
- 1972–1975
- 2785 (July 1972)
- Grandmaster (1958)
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 ...
Jan 19, 2008 · 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. He was 64, and had ...
Jan 18, 2008 · Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64. Fischer died in a hospital in Iceland, where he ...
Jan 18, 2008 · Noted French chess expert Olivier Tridon: “Bobby Fischer has died at age 64. Like the 64 squares of a chess board.”. In another bit of symmetry, his death occurred in the city where he had his ...
Jan 18, 2008 · Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was 64. Fisher died ...
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