Bobby Fischer
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 Bobby Fischer facts

• Many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time
• In 1972, he captured the World Chess Championship from Boris Spassky of the USSR in a match held in Reykjavík, Iceland, publicized as a Cold War confrontation, which attracted more worldwide interest than any chess championship before or since
• In 1975, Fischer refused to defend his title when an agreement could not be reached with FIDE, the game's international governing body, over one of the conditions for the match
• This allowed Soviet GM Anatoly Karpov, who had won the qualifying Candidates' cycle, to become the new world champion by default under FIDE rules
• Fischer showed skill at an early age
• At age 13 he won a "brilliancy" that became known as "The Game of the Century"
• Starting at age 14, Fischer played in eight United States Championships, winning each by at least a one-point margin
• At age 15, Fischer became both the youngest grandmaster up to that time and the youngest candidate for the World Championship
• At age 20, Fischer won the 1963–64 U
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