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Topic: Bobby Fisher dead at 64...
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-01-18-fischer-obit_N.htm
Former chess champion Bobby Fischer dead at 64
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer, the brilliant, troubled former chess champion, has died, a spokesman said Friday. He was 64.
Fischer spokesman Gardar Sverrisson said Fischer died in a Reykjavik hospital on Thursday. There was no immediate word on cause of death.
U.S.-born Fischer, a fierce critic of his homeland who renounced his U.S. citizenship, moved to Iceland in 2005.
He was world famous for defeating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in 1972.
The Chicago-born, Brooklyn, N.Y.-reared Fischer was wanted in the United States for playing a 1992 rematch against Cold War rival Spassky in Yugoslavia in defiance of international sanctions.
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Fischer will be remembered as one of the most chess genius ever. After lately difficult years he now has got piece. Before this ilnes came up he had a great time in Iceland. He had said that his time here also with the match against Spassky had been his best in his live.
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May he rest in peace.
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What a coincidence! There are 64 squares in chess and Bobby Fischer dead at 64...
May he rest in peace. He will be with chess forever.
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He was a great player and in the USA he took chess from being something for nerds and made fun of to being "cool". It's too bad he went nuts. I hope he'll be remembered for his brilliance and not his paranoia.
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why do they say he went nuts?? He was a great chess player..i wish i could play chess like he could at my age
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