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For other people with similar names, see Bob Fischer and Bob Fisher. Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14.
Jan 18, 2008 · Bobby Fischer, the iconoclastic genius who was one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, died on Thursday in a hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland. He was 64.
Jan 19, 2008 · Bobby Fischer, the Chicago-born, Brooklyn-bred genius who became one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, died Thursday in Reykjavik, Iceland. He was 64, and had for decades...
Jan 19, 2008 · Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic American chess genius who became a Cold War hero with his 1972 defeat of Soviet champion Boris Spassky but fell from grace in later decades when he became a recluse...
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Apr 2, 2014 · Death. Fischer died of kidney failure on January 17, 2008, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Personal Life. Miyoko Watai, a Japanese women's chess champion and general secretary of the Japanese Chess...
Jan 18, 2008 · 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.
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Jan 19, 2008 · Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a cold war hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his Amercian citizenship, has died. He was 64. Fisher died in a Reykjavik hospital on Thursday of kidney failure after a long illness, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson said Friday.
