ROBERT JAMES FISCHER or commonly BOBBY FISCHER was an American chess GRANDMASTER.He is among the most respected chess players in modern era.He was born in March,1943 & died inJan,2008.He learned rules of the game at the age of SIX and was US champion 8 times.Bobby, who died at the age of 64, was a prodigal child, a grandmaster and before age 30 a world champion who triumphed in a Cold War showdown with Soviet champion Boris Spassky.
Started at age 14 he played 8 united states chess championships and won all the eight.At the age of 15 and a half he became the youngest grandmaster and earned the fame of the youngest candidate for world championship at that time.Somebody describes Fischer as the “Pride and sorrow of chess”.He was kind of an eccentric genius with a reported I.Q of 180.The last years of his life was miserable, there were loads of legal fights with his homeland(US).He was an Icelandic citizen in the last days. Fischer was always on focus of the press for his dark comments, he praised the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying, “I want to see the U.S. wiped out,” and described Jews as “thieving, lying bastards”,despite his mother being a Jew.Whatever be his personal life, he was a chess star.At his peak, Bobby Fischer was a figure of glamour who drew millions of new fans to chess.
He was winner of every tournament and match in which he participated from December, 1962 through World Championship match 1972 with just two exceptions one is Capablanca Memorial, 1965, (second place- half point behind Smyslov), and Piatigorsky Cup, 1966, (Second – half point behind Spassky).

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