Bobby Fischer - Former World Chess Champion

[teeyoh]

From ABS-CBN Sports (as of Friday, January 18, 2008 7:49 PM)
Chess legend Bobby Fischer dead: reports

[SIZE=2]Agence France-Presse
REYKJAVIK - US-born Chess legend Bobby Fischer, who has lived in Iceland for more than two years, has died at the age of 64, Icelandic media reports said Friday.
"We know that he died yesterday (Thursday) in his home in Reykjavik," a journalist at the Morgunbladid daily told AFP, confirming a report on Icelandic television.
Fischer made headlines around the world by defeating Soviet world champion Boris Spassky in 1972, in a Cold War chess showdown in Reykjavik known as the match of the century.

http://uw.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=106038

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Until his demise Bobby Fischer still made news.
He popularized chess that the Philippines produced Asia's first grandmaster Eugene Torre.
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[teeyoh]

Even Gary Kasparov (russian ex world chess champion) has high praises for Bobby Fischer. Our very own Eugene Torre later become one of his few trusted friends,

and now...


http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakin...uio----friends

[jonski]

Pinaghahanap yata yung anak ni Bobby dito sa Pilipnas kasi meron sya mamanahin na $3,000,000.00

[v6dreamer]

Bobby Fischer known as the destroyer of the arrogant Russian federation in world chess and claimed that he achive all every possible moved in board. Despite all his fame and glory a national hero he became an enemy of the state after making deregatory remarks about the 911 incident in New York.