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Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (born March 9, 1943) is a grandmaster and former world chess champion, who on September 1, 1972, became the first, and is still the only, American chess player to win the World Chess Championship. In 1975, he officially lost the title when FIDE, the international chess federation, refused to accept his conditions for a title defense. Garry Kasparov wrote that of all world champions of chess, the skill gap between Fischer and his contemporaries was the largest in history . Fischer is also well-known for his eccentricity, unconventional and irrational behavior, anti-Semitism and outspoken political views. Despite his prolonged absence from competitive play, or perhaps because of it, Fischer is still among the best known of all chess players.
Fischer's victory over the Soviet champion Boris Spassky to win the world championship in the "Match of the Century" was seen as a symbolic victory for the West that catalyzed interest in the game internationally. His opponent was portrayed, in the United States in particular, as the product of an impersonal, mechanical, and oppressive system of state control, while Fischer was the solitary genius overcoming the Soviets' claim to dominance. As he was a national hero, Americans were willing to forgive his behavior and views as eccentricities, and in popular culture he became a symbol of the genius whose brilliance is so great that he is destroyed by it.
Early years
Robert James Fischer was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Regina Wender, a naturalized American citizen of Jewish Polish ancestry who was born in Switzerland, raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and later became a teacher, registered nurse and physician. His father was listed on the birth certificate as Wender's first husband, Hans-Gerhardt Fischer, a German biophysicist; the couple married in 1933 in Moscow, U.S.S.R., where Wender was studying medicine at the First Moscow Medical Institute. Though Hans-Gerhardt Fischer is listed as the father on Robert Fischer's birth certificate, a 2002 article in The Philadelphia Inquirer stated that Fischer's biological father was Paul Felix Nemenyi, a Hungarian Jewish physicist who fled Europe after the Nazis came to power and worked on the Manhattan Project on the development of the atomic bomb . Nemenyi paid child support for Fischer during his infancy and early childhood. Later, FBI research determined that although Fischer's mother had returned to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1939, her first husband never entered the country after that date, making it improbable that Fischer, born in 1943, was Hans-Gerhardt Fischer's child. More on [ Bobby Fischer ]
Sue Drover Bobby Fischer would roll over in his grave if he was watching my girls chess game right now. Tabitha mov... http://bit.ly/8MXgSG
WholeWheatRadio (wholewheatradio) Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:35:53 -0000
Sue Drover Bobby Fischer would roll over in his grave if he was watching my girls chess game right now. Tabitha mov... http://bit.ly/8MXgSG
Bobby Fischer, probabil cel mai mare jucator de sah din toate timpurile: http://ping.fm/yvmcM
camilressu (MrSPORT byCamilressu) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:48:04 -0000
Bobby Fischer, probabil cel mai mare jucator de sah din toate timpurile: http://ping.fm/yvmcM
Bobby Fischer, probabil cel mai mare jucator de sah din toate timpurile, http://www.mrsport.ro/?p=5445
camilressu (MrSPORT byCamilressu) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:47:56 -0000
Bobby Fischer, probabil cel mai mare jucator de sah din toate timpurile, http://www.mrsport.ro/?p=5445
dogs and chess...from where bobby fischer used to play... http://twitpic.com/v5x71
timmott (tim mott) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:52:22 -0000
dogs and chess...from where bobby fischer used to play... http://twitpic.com/v5x71
@Pogonina RT: âBest by test: 1. e4â - Bobby Fischer. That's what Kramnik said too! :P
noumen1 (Maciej Klicki) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:48:33 -0000
@Pogonina RT: “Best by test: 1. e4” - Bobby Fischer. That's what Kramnik said too! :P
Bobby Fischer did say "1 e4 best by test" but that was long before I was long before I was even born.
e4c5 (raditha dissanayake) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:17:12 -0000
Bobby Fischer did say "1 e4 best by test" but that was long before I was long before I was even born.
Atlantic Monthly: Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame - Article detailing Bobby Fischer's history and his recent public anti-American and anti-Semitic rants. By Rene Chun.
Meta Description: [ Paranoia, hubris, and hatred—the unraveling of the greatest chess player ever ]
Fischer Interviewed about Sale of his Memorabilia plus Sloan Articles - Features transcripts and streaming audio (RealPlayer) of three Philippines interviews. Includes links to Fischer articles by journalist Sam Sloan.
Fischer Random Chess News, Rules, Examples - Describes Fischer's invented variation of chess.
Games from 1955-1992 - Click to download zip file (.PGN format).
Lonnie Best: Amazing Bobby Fischer - Features an article and links to books on Fischer.
Meta Description: [ Site provides a essay on Bobby
Fischer written by Lonnie Lee Best - Purchase Bobby Fischer Books ]
Robert J Fischer - Features match history (with photos), downloadable games in .PGN format, and background history of Bobby Fischer.
The Bobby Fischer Home Page - Includes a comprehensive game cross-reference, photos, news, brief bio, and links.
Meta Description: [ play better chess by studying bobby fischer's games and his life. ]
The Telegraph: Bobby Fischer Speaks Out to Applaud Trade Centre Attacks - Information regarding Bobby Fischer's interview with a Philippine radio station in which he applauds the September 11 attacks and denounces the United States. By David Bamber and Chris Hastings.
Unofficial Rematch 1992: Fischer - Spassky (Unofficial/match) - Includes commentary and highlights from their games.
Meta Description: [ World Chess Championship; 1992 Fischer - Spassky Rematch ]
World Chess Championship 1972: Fischer - Spassky - Gives downloadable .PGN Games and commentary from this FIDE match.
Meta Description: [ World Chess Championship; 1970-72 cycle; 1972 Fischer - Spassky ]
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