Robert ("Bobby") James Fischer (1943, *)
Booby
Fischer was chess world master 1972 through 1975. He is probably the best
player of all time. Fischer was born in Chicago (Illinois) on March 9, 1943.
He grew up in Brooklyn, a district of New York. His parents got divorced when
he was 2. He stayed with his mother. He was taught chess by his sister at
age 6. At the age of 13 he became chess master of America. In 1958 he became
the youngest grand master in chess history. He has been playing with the best
chess players of the world since 1962.
Fischer was known as a great tournament player. During the US-championships he played 11 games and won 11 games, that is a record! After an argument at the (Interzonenturnier) he retired to play chess tournaments until 1970. In 1972 he won the world master title against the Russian Boris Spasskyi. But in 1975 he did not defend his title against Anatoli Karpov. He lost by default.
Until the 90s, Fischer lived in seclusion. Then in 1992, He held a show match against Boris Spasski. In doing so, Fischer disregarded an international boycott against Yugoslavia, where the match was held. Fischer clearly won and again he withdrew from tournament chess.