Bob Fischer was a brilliant chess player who defeated Boris Spassky in 1972. He made anti-Semitic and anti-American statements despite being Jewish and American. He became a fugitive in 1992 for defying international sanctions and denounced his American citizenship in 2005. Fischer was born in Chicago to a Polish-Jewish mother and raised by a single parent. He taught himself chess at six and became a grandmaster at 15. Fischer was very reclusive and expressed outspoken, controversial opinions. He died in 2008 at age 64.
BobFischer was one of the most brilliant chess players in the world. He was a chess grandmaster whose greatest career achievement was his victory over Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky in Iceland in 1972. Fischer is also said to have made various anti-Semitic and anti-American statements even though he was both Jewish and American .
The 1972 Spassky-Fischer chess competition was called “The Game of the Century” and was big business in the chess world. When BobFischer decided to have a rematch with Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia in 1992, he was wanted as a fugitive by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for defying international sanctions. In 2005, Fischer is said to have chosen to become an Icelandic citizen and to have denounced his American citizenship.
Robert James Fischer was born on March 9, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois to a Polish-Jewish mother. His mother, Regina Wender, became a teacher, nurse and doctor. According to the FBI, the German biophysicist listed on Fisher’s birth certificate as his father could not have been, due to timelines when German was in the United States. After divorcing the biophysicist, Regina raised Bobby, as well as her older sister Joan, as a single parent since she Bob was two years old. They moved from Chicago to Arizona and then to Brooklyn.
BobFischer’s passion for playing chess is said to have started when his sister bought a small chess set from the candy store they lived in above. Bob was six years old and he was said to have taught himself the game by following the instructions that came with the board. At age seven, he joined the Brooklyn Chess Club and learned more about the game from a chess instructor there. When he was 13 he asked his mother for lessons from another teacher to which she agreed. BobFischer became an American chess champion at age 14 and a grandmaster at 15.
BobFischer was a chess genius who even at his worst was among the top three chess players in the world. His school records are said to list his intelligence quotient (IQ) at 180. For most of his adult life he was very reclusive and apparently would periodically surface to express outspoken, often anti-Semitic and anti-American opinions on radio interview programs . He is said to have called Jews “thieves, lying bastards” and to have claimed, after the events of September 11, 2001, that the United States deserved to be “wiped out”. BobFischer is said to have died aged 18 or 19, depending on the report that reads, in January 2008 of kidney failure at age 64, the number of boxes on a chessboard.
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