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/ 19 January 2008
So the king is dead, the game over. Bobby Fischer — perhaps the greatest player in the history of chess, certainly the most charismatic and controversial — has died of kidney failure in his adoptive home, Iceland. But Fischer the chess genius died more than 30 years ago.
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/ 18 January 2008
Bobby Fischer, who died on January 17 aged 64, was a high school dropout who may have been the greatest chess player of all time, but ended his life in eccentric seclusion. The United States-born player had lived for the last two years in Iceland after serving eight months behind bars in Japan.
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/ 18 January 2008
Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died of an unspecified illness, a spokesperson for the late champion said on Friday. He was 64. Fischer, who beat Russian Boris Spassky in 1972 to become world champion, was considered by some chess experts to be the greatest player of all time.