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Greatest ever Chess Legend - Bobby Fischer

World’s greatest Chess player

Let us get inspired by the great Robert James Fischer (Bobby) who lived, fought & died an uncompromising fighter against every injustice.

Full name           : Robert James Fischer

Born                   : March 9, 1943(1943-03-09) at Chicago, Illinois, United States

Brought up         : Brooklyn by his mother

Countries           : United States, Iceland, Japan, Germany

Wife                   : Miyoko Watai, President of the Japan Chess Association

Death                  :January 17, 2008 (aged 64) due to renal (kidney) failure in Reykjavík, Iceland

Title                     : Super Grandmaster

World champion : 11th world champion from 1972–1975 (FIDE) defeating Boris Spassky of Russia

Peak rating          : 2785 (July 1972)

Sir Bobby Fischer is considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time.

In 1949, at the age of 6, he learned to play chess & soon became deeply absorbed in the game saying "All I want to do, ever, is play chess."

In 1956, at the age of 13, he became the youngest national junior chess champion in the USA.

In 1957, at the age of 14, he became the youngest senior US Champion.

In 1958, at the age of 15, he became the youngest Grandmaster in the history of chess.

Bobby later dropped out of school to become a professional Chess player. Fischer's academic records indicated an I.Q. of 180 with an incredibly retentive memory.

In 1964, at the age of 21, Fischer & Petrosian topped the first international rating list published by Arpad Elo at 2690 each.

In 1972, he broke the Soviet domination of the World Championship when he became the first American to win the title by defeating Boris Spassky of the USSR in Reykjavik, Iceland.

In 1975, FIDE refused to meet Fischer's conditions for a World Championship match with the Soviet Anatoly Karpov & Fischer refused to play. Consequently FIDE awarded the title of World Champion to Karpov. After this dispute Fischer vanished from public eye for twenty years & moved to Europe.

In 1988, Bobby patented the Fischer digital Chess clock which adds three seconds per move so as to compensate the player for the physical movement of their arm & to avoid rushing movements that knock over pieces

On September 1, 1992, Bobby Fischer came out of his 20 year retirement.

On September 30, 1992, Bobby Fischer began his rematch with Boris Spassky in Sveti Stefan, Yugoslavia.

On Nov 11, 1992, He won the match with 10 wins, 5 losses, & 15 draws.

In 1996, Fischer launched a new game called "Fischerandom Chess" in which the major pieces on the back rank are randomly shuffled behind their pawns. Fischer maintained that this form of chess was a better test of a player's skill & got away from opening theory homework.

In October 2000, Nigel Short confirmed that he played & lost 0:8 against Bobby Fischer on the internet, although he is one of the world's best speed chess players. "In my opinion Fischer is a much stronger speed chess player than Kasparov, which is incredible” said Nigel Short, a British Grandmaster.

He gave the cerebral game, an international prominence & political glamour. He single-handedly revitalized a game that had been stagnating under the control of the Communists of the Soviet sports hierarchy. He changed the game in a way that hadn't been seen since the late 19th century. He made chess more professional in terms of overall chess strategy & proper education in chess, in bringing everything he had into the game. Mr. Fischer's play, nationality & natural charisma created a unique opportunity. He was a national hero whose popularity rivaled that of Muhammad Ali. Sales of chess sets & books boomed, & tournament prize funds soared. With Bobby Fischer in the lead, chess was headed for the popularity of golf & tennis. The gap between Mr. Fischer & his contemporaries was the largest ever. His contributions to the game, both at the board & from a commercial perspective, were nothing short of a revolution in the chess world. Due to Mr. Fischer's outrageous behavior leading up to & during the "match of the century", the international media coverage was incredible. The games were shown live around the world. Chess was on the cusp of becoming a commercially successful sport for the first time.