Bobby fisher died ...world lost another genius......

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Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American-born chess Grandmaster, an Icelandic citizen at the time of his death, who became famous as a teenager for his chess-playing ability. In 1972, he became the first, and thus far only, American to win the official World Chess Championship, defeating defending champion Boris Spassky in a match held in Reykjavík, Iceland. The match was widely publicized as a Cold War battle because it pitted a single American against the Soviet system. He is often referred to as a candidate for the greatest chess player of all time.

In 1975, Fischer refused to defend his title when FIDE, the international chess federation, would not accept all his conditions. He was stripped of his title as a result, after which he became more reclusive.
In 1977, Bobby Fischer played three games in Cambridge against the MIT Greenblatt computer program. Fischer won all the games, even though he started with the black pieces in the first game.Fischer disappeared and did not play competitive chess for nearly twenty years. That is until 1992, when he had a rematch with Spassky. The competition was held in Yugoslavia, which was then under a strict United Nations embargo. This led to a conflict with the U.S. government and he never returned to his native country.The result was no different,he won again.
In the early 1980s, Fischer stayed for extended periods in the San Francisco-area home of his friend, the Canadian Grandmaster Peter Biyiasas. During a stretch of four months, the two played 17 five-minute games, and Fischer, despite his layoff from competitive play, won all of them, according to Biyiasas.To his death, he claimed he was still the World Champion because he never lost a title match.
In his later years, Fischer lived in Hungary and later Japan. While away from America, he became increasingly paranoid and made anti-American and antisemitic statements. In 2004–2005, after his U.S. passport was revoked, he was detained by Japanese authorities for nine months under threat of extradition. He was then granted Icelandic citizenship and released to Iceland by the Japanese authorities. He lived in Iceland from 2005 until his death in 2008.

read more about him at
http://www.bobby-fischer.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer
http://www.ishipress.com/bobby.htm
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,870785,00.html