Chess Genius Bobby Fischer: Dead At Age 64, Spent 30+ Years Living In Seclusion

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Chess Grandmaster Robert "Bobby" Fischer quitted competitive chess as the world champion in the 70's at the prime of his life (Age 29). It has been said that he has an IQ greater than Albert Einstein.

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"But the last three decades of his life were spent in seclusion, broken periodically by erratic and often anti-Semitic comments and by an absurd legal battle with his homeland, the United States."

Chess master Bobby Fischer dead at 64
By GUDJON HELGASON, Associated Press Writer

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - "Chess," Bobby Fischer once said, "is life."

It was the chess master's tragedy that the messy, tawdry details of his life often overshadowed the sublime genius of his game.

Fischer, who has died at the age of 64, was a child prodigy, a teenage grandmaster and — before age 30 — a world champion who triumphed in a Cold War showdown with Soviet champion Boris Spassky.

But the last three decades of his life were spent in seclusion, broken periodically by erratic and often anti-Semitic comments and by an absurd legal battle with his homeland, the United States.

"He was the pride and sorrow of chess," said Raymond Keene, a British grandmaster and chess correspondent for The Times of London. "It's tragic that such a great man descended into madness and anti-Semitism."

Fischer died Thursday of kidney failure in Reykjavik after a long illness, friend and spokesman Gardar Sverrisson said Friday.

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He might have live a life short of his potentials? What do you think.

 

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