Search for Bobby Fischer ends at age 64

Passes on Thursday in Iceland

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AP via Yahoo! News: Chess master Bobby Fischer dies at 64 [news.yahoo.com]

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 in a Reykjavik hospital on Thursday of kidney failure after a long illness, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said Friday.

Born in Chicago and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Fischer faced criminal charges in the United States for playing a 1992 rematch against Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia in defiance of international sanctions. In 2005, he moved to Iceland, a chess-mad nation and site of his greatest triumph.

[digitalghost]

Sad news. Sort of odd too, I feel some connection to him as I've replayed his games hundreds of times. So many times I wished he would come out of hiding to play the masters of the day.

Farewell Bobby.

[Tastatura]

I think (but I might be wrong) that there is a statue of Bobby Fisher in Belgrade (capital of then Yugoslavia)- for his contribution to chess and defiance of sanctions (chess lovers were thankful for the game regardless of the politics).

So long Bobby

[wyweb]

RIP Bobby

[Brett_Tabke]

Bobby inspired me to take up the game. See ya bud.