Bobby Fischer checks out
 

My dad played a lot of competitive chess before and just after I was born. He played him ones (and of course lost).

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Bobby Fischer, First U.S. World Chess Champion, Dies

Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Bobby Fischer, the first U.S.-born chess player to become world champion, died yesterday in Iceland, the country's national radio said. He was 64.

Fischer beat Russian champion Boris Spassky in a 1972 match in Iceland at the height of the Cold War. He moved to Iceland in 2005 after publicly criticizing his home country on several occasions. He eventually renounced his U.S. citizenship.

He was born in Chicago in 1943.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...zOc&refer=home

guy had balls biger than coconuts. RIP.

Like a lot of seriously clever people he was totally nuts.....

Didnt he go on some mad antisemetic rant at some point?

Wasn't he wanted in the US?

i loved his game play.
may he RIP

My hero! R.I.P.

I played Gary Kasparov a few years ago in New York.

he sure did.

Brings back memories of reading chess books. The guy was the greatest just touched as fuck.

i think so. and he's 100% kosher himself. weird dude for sure, but stood up for what he believed.

Yeah, I saw that on TV today... RIP.

R.I.P.

One of the best chess players ever.. And one of the best personalities ever.

Rest In Peace Champion!

Why? Because he is smarter than you and you don't understand what he's saying?

Im always impressed with those chess geniouses... I pretty much SUCK in chess

i think he may have been referring to the fact fischer praised osama bin laden and hated jews..

just a wild guess though :winkwink:

Checkmate .....

Guess I'll stop searching for him....

:1orglaugh

R.I.P. Bobby.

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RIP Bobby

At the risk of sounded cold, I don't really care that he died. I haven't even heard anyone even talk about him for years.