Bobby Fischer Birthday

Robert James (Bobby) Fischer was born on this day in 1943 and is considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time. 

Fischer became the youngest grandmaster in the world at age 15, and in 1962 won the American Championship with a perfect 11/11 score. In 1972 he defeated Boris Spassky to win the World Championship in one of the most celebrated competitions of all time, held in Reykjavik, Iceland.

A controversial figure, Fischer refused to defend his title in 1975 against Anatoly Karpov. Karpov became world champion by default, and Fischer largely dropped out of public life until 1992, when he played a rematch against Spassky in Yugoslavia, which was under a UN embargo at the time. This led to the United States issuing a warrant for his arrest. Ultimately, Fischer was granted Icelandic citizenship, and lived in Iceland, the site of his greatest triumph, until his death in 2008 at the age of 64.

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