Chess legend Fischer Dies

[Starshine]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080119...4zC6KtxvZdDxkF

REYKJAVIK (AFP) - Chess legend Bobby Fischer's life in Iceland was marked by both paranoid behaviour and quiet solitude, spending his days reading, fishing and devising new variations on the game he mastered, friends said.

The troubled American high school dropout, whose fabled 1972 victory over Soviet world champion Boris Spassky made him a Cold War hero, died Thursday at the age of 64 at his home in Iceland.

[GamingX]

Read that. Wasn't in the news lately. Though I have read stories about him, but he was before my time.

[Starshine]

Read that. Wasn't in the news lately. Though I have read stories about him, but he was before my time.

He was pretty much before my time, but when I started getting into Chess, he was a major figure as well as the Russian Chessmasters that I followed growing up. ( Now retired from competition )