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About Bobby Fischer
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In 1972, at the height of the Cold War, Bobby Fischer became a hero for the free world. Only 29 years old at the time, he became world-known by challenging and defeating the world chess champion at the time, Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The match, called the "Match of the Century", took place in Reykiavik, Iceland.
In 1992, when the United States under President Bill Clinton
invaded the small country of Yugoslavia, bombing it for weeks and weeks as a prelude
to similar invasions of Iraq by his successors. There was a rematch scheduled in
Yugoslavia with the Russian chess master Boris Spassky. Fischer won the match 10
games to 5, and collected the winning stake of $3 million. Immediately, he was charged
by the US with violating UN sanctions.
Ever since that time the chess genius has been moving around the word, from country
to country, avoiding the US authorities for 8 years of the Clinton administration
and 3 years of the George W. Bush administration. Apparently he has spent time in
Japan and in the Philipines.
In 1996 he announced that he gave up chess in its current
form, and from then on would play only his own version, called "Fischerandom", in
which the pieces on the back line of the board are shuffled by a computer for each
match. He said that this would bring fun back into the game, and prevent cheating.
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About Bobby Fischer
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