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Fischer, Bobby
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popular name of Robert (James) Fischer
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pronunciation:
[fisher]
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| (1943– )
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| biography:
| Chess player, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Raised in Brooklyn after his parents divorced in 1945, he learned to play chess when he was six and won the US junior and senior titles at age 14. In 1972 he captured the world championship from Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland, while competing for what was then the largest purse ($250,000) offered in any sport outside boxing. Amid praise for his ‘classicist’ style, the win set off a short-lived US chess boom. A longtime nemesis of tournament officials for his tantrums and phobias, he failed in 1975 to agree to terms for a title defence against Anatoly Karpov, and was stripped of his crown by FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Echecs). Afterwards he refused to compete in public, lived in virtual seclusion in the Los Angeles area, and was briefly active in the fundamentalist Worldwide Church of God. |
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