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01-18-2008, 07:22 AM
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Jack Burton
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Chess legend Fischer dies at 64
Controversial former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died aged 64, Iceland's media says.
The US-born player, who became famous around the world for beating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in 1972, had been seriously ill for some time. Mr Fischer was granted Icelandic citizenship in 2005 as a way to avoid being deported to the US. Mr Fischer was wanted for breaking international sanctions by playing a match in the former Yugoslavia in 1992. He also had alienated many in his homeland by broadcasting anti-Semitic diatribes and expressing support for the 11 September 2001 attacks in New York.
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01-18-2008, 08:45 AM
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Re: Chess legend Fischer dies at 64
RIP.
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01-18-2008, 11:22 AM
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Re: Chess legend Fischer dies at 64
Shrug!
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01-21-2008, 01:28 AM
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Re: Chess legend Fischer dies at 64
The world has lost one of its greatest chess geniuses. And such a surrealistically coincidental age by which to die!
I'll always cherish his games as he was one of the first GM's I ever tried to study as a young chess enthusiast. May his chess legacy live on!
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01-21-2008, 06:34 AM
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Jack Burton
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Re: Chess legend Fischer dies at 64
Good point CerebroDragon. I never caught the age thing.
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