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    eccentric behavior. Bobby Fischer was born at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, on March 9, 1943. His mother, Regina Wender Fischer, was a US citizen...
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  • Searching for Bobby Fischer, released in the United Kingdom as Innocent Moves, is a 1993 American drama film written and directed by Steven Zaillian in...
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  • five-year averages for later players Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov. It did list January 1978 ratings of 2780 for Fischer and 2725 for Karpov. In 1970, FIDE...
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  • The 1992 Fischer–Spassky match was a chess match between former world chess champions Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. It was billed as a World Chess Championship...
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    Bobby Fischer Center (Icelandic: Fischersetur) is a small non-profit biographical museum housing memorabilia of the 1972 World Chess Champion, Bobby Fischer...
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  • Bobby Fischer Against the World is a documentary feature film that explores the life of chess Grandmaster and 11th World Champion Bobby Fischer. It incorporates...
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  • Pawn Sacrifice (category Works about Bobby Fischer)
    psychological drama film about Bobby Fischer, a chess grandmaster and the eleventh world champion. It follows Fischer's challenge against top Soviet chess...
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    1966; defeated Petrosian in 1969 to become world champion; then lost to Bobby Fischer in a famous match in 1972. Spassky won the Soviet Chess Championship...
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  • Peter Nemenyi and the putative father of former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer. Neményi was born to a wealthy Hungarian-Jewish family on June 5, 1895...
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    Many books, films and other works about Bobby Fischer have been created. Bobby Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess prodigy...
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  • Me & Bobby Fischer is a documentary about Bobby Fischer's last years as his old friend Saemundur Palsson gets him out of jail in Japan and helps him settle...
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    on the back rank. It was introduced by former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer in 1996 to reduce the emphasis on opening preparation and encourage...
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  • his efforts on assisting his fellow American Bobby Fischer in his quest for the world title. He was Fischer's second for the Candidates matches leading up...
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    1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet...
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    was an eight-time winner of the US Chess Championship, tying him with Bobby Fischer for the all-time record. He was an accountant by profession and also...
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  • Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess is a chess puzzle book written by Bobby Fischer and co-authored by Stuart Margulies and Donn Mosenfelder, originally published...
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    this rule twice, in 1958 and 1961. With the exception of the American Bobby Fischer in 1972, Soviet citizens won every championship from 1948 until the...
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    shows. Sarwer's attacking playing style was often compared to that Bobby Fischer, and a tournament game drawn against him by another young chess player...
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  • Joan Targ (redirect from Joan Fischer)
    brother, Bobby Fischer—widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time—his first chess set and taught him how to play the game. Joan Fischer was born...
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  • controversies relating to the American player Bobby Fischer. The first controversy took place when Fischer alleged that, at the 1962 Candidates Tournament...
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    known board game; a custom-made set of chess furniture that belonged to Bobby Fischer; and the first commercial chess computer. The museum also displays two...
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    done so, breaking the record previously held by former world champion Bobby Fischer. She was the youngest player ever to break into the FIDE top 100 players...
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    American chess players during the 1950s and 1960s, and a contemporary of Bobby Fischer, whom he seconded during the World Chess Championship 1972. He won the...
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    Championship cycle to choose the challenger to play world champion Bobby Fischer. He finished equal first in the Leningrad Interzonal, qualifying for...
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  • Assembly of Alberta Bobby Fischer (1943–2008), American chess grandmaster and chess world champion between 1972 and 1975 Robert Fischer (actor) (1881–1973)...
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    Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. The film Searching for Bobby Fischer is based on his early life. Waitzkin first noticed the game of chess...
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    retired Japanese chess player and widow of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master by FIDE in...
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  • the 1972 world championship match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, which Fischer defaulted, and Game 5 of the 2006 world championship match between...
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    Congress "FISCHER, SMYSLOV PLAY IN DEADLOOK; American and Russian Draw in 7th-Round Adjourned Game of Chess Event". New York Times. Bobby Fischer, United...
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  • studies. Fischer vs. Taimanov, 1971, game 2 Some zugzwang positions occurred in the second game of the 1971 candidates match between Bobby Fischer and Mark...
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