Former US citizen and chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer died yesterday in a Reykjavik hospital aged 64, the Evening Standard reports. The cause of his death is not known, but he'd been ill for some time.
Fischer will be best remembered for his 1972 clash with Russian Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, which resulted in the US's first world chess champion for more than a century.
This proved to be the zenith of a brilliant chess career which saw Fischer crowned American chess champion at 14 and a grandmaster at 15. Following the Spassky match, however, he forfeited his world title in 1975 to Anatoly Karpov, after refusing to defend it.
Source : *www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/18/fischer_dead/
Fischer will be best remembered for his 1972 clash with Russian Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, which resulted in the US's first world chess champion for more than a century.
This proved to be the zenith of a brilliant chess career which saw Fischer crowned American chess champion at 14 and a grandmaster at 15. Following the Spassky match, however, he forfeited his world title in 1975 to Anatoly Karpov, after refusing to defend it.
Source : *www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/18/fischer_dead/
