Skwerly
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Not sure how many of you manly wheelers follow the chess scene, but I figured I'd post up anyhow.
Yesterday Bobby Fischer, former and ONLY American born world chess champion and a genius who revolutionized the game and brought it more to the public view than any previous player, died at the age of 64.
Bobby became an International GrandMaster at the tender age of 15, and since that time dominated the chess world until he won the World Championship in 1972 against the Russian Boris Spassky. After that match he dropped off the planet entirely, nobody knew where he was. Then after being taunted by Spassky in the press and the rest of the chess community, he came out of hiding in 1992 only to crush him again, and then went back into seclusion, living like a vagrant in Pasadena.
He finally ended up in Iceland, where he died yesterday of what is rumored to be liver failure, but official reasons have not yet been released.
At any rate, it's big news to me, and the end of a great chess era.
Yesterday Bobby Fischer, former and ONLY American born world chess champion and a genius who revolutionized the game and brought it more to the public view than any previous player, died at the age of 64.
Bobby became an International GrandMaster at the tender age of 15, and since that time dominated the chess world until he won the World Championship in 1972 against the Russian Boris Spassky. After that match he dropped off the planet entirely, nobody knew where he was. Then after being taunted by Spassky in the press and the rest of the chess community, he came out of hiding in 1992 only to crush him again, and then went back into seclusion, living like a vagrant in Pasadena.
He finally ended up in Iceland, where he died yesterday of what is rumored to be liver failure, but official reasons have not yet been released.
At any rate, it's big news to me, and the end of a great chess era.
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