Bobby Fischer

- Born: March 9, 1943
- Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
- Raised: Brooklyn, New York
- Renounced U.S. citizenship
- Resided Reykjavík, Iceland
- Title: Grandmaster
- World Champion: 1972-1975
- Peak rating 2895 (October 1971)
- Died: January 17, 2008 (aged 64)

Bobby Fischer became a famous chess player as a teenager and in 1972 he became the only American World Chess Champion. In 1975 he had a dispute with the international chess authorities, and refused to defend his title. He is considered one of the greatest chess players of all time, although his later years were marred by controversial anti-semitic and September 11 comments.

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  In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion, Boris Spassky,and his American...
  
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  Josh Waitzkin is just a typical American boy interested in baseball when one day he challenges his father at chess and wins. Showing unusual precocity at the outdoor matches at Was...
  
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- @biz Chess players seem to think the world is as small as their community is... I met Bobby Fischer he asked if I knew Bill Gates.
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