Who is Bobby Fischer?
Bobby Fischer was one of the most brilliant chess players in the world. He was a chess grand master whose biggest career highlight was his victory over Russian chess grand master Boris Spassky in Iceland in 1972. Fischer was 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 Match of the Century” and was a very big deal in the chess world. When Bobby Fischer decided to have a rematch with Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia in 1992 he became wanted as a fugitive by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for defying international sanctions. In 2005, Fischer was reported to have chosen to become an Icelandic citizen and to have denounced his American citizenship. Robert James Fischer was born 9 March, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois to a Jewish-Polish mother. His mother, Regina Wender, became a teacher, registered nurse and doctor. According to the FBI, the German biophysici
Bobby Fischer, at the age of sixteen, was a world chess champion with an IQ of 180 and an astonishing memory! Half-Jewish, half non-Jewish, he is one of the greatest American chess players of all time. He is mysterious and controversial. A genius with extraordinary mental prowess, yet he dropped out of school. He is a Jewish anti-Semite, a misogynist, paranoid man, and a McCarthyite (a communist hater). Some say that he is insane. But he is also an American sports hero and a champion of champions. Let us unravel some of this mystery and discover who is Bobby Fischer. He was born Robert James Fischer on the 9th March 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. His father was a non-Jewish physicist. His mother was a Jewess, who was a nurse and schoolteacher. When he was two, his parents divorced, and shortly after, his father went abroad, never to see him again. He and his older sister (Mrs. Joan Trag) went to live with his mother in California, Arizona and then in Brooklyn. Fischers mother was a wo
Bobby Fischer was the only American to win the international Chess championships from defending Russian Boris Spatsky…..he was a bit crazy and left the US as he felt persecuted…but a master at playing chess…the movie searching for Bobby Fischer is an excellent movie about child chess prodigies….. http://en.wikipedia.
