![]() ![]() authorities since a 1992 rematch with Spassky in Yugoslavia that violated economic sanctions against Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbian government. įischer had lived in Iceland since 2005, when that country, which had hosted his legendary match against Spassky, offered him citizenship. He participated by telegraph in a tournament held in Cuba in 1965. ![]() ![]() The legendary chess champion died Thursday in Reykjavik, Iceland, after a long illness, according to his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson.įischer obituary: The obituary of chess champion Bobby Fischer in Saturday’s Section A said he withdrew from international competition for five years in 1962. Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic American chess genius who became a Cold War hero with his 1972 defeat of Soviet champion Boris Spassky but fell from grace in later decades when he became a recluse and fugitive known for his hate-filled rants, has died. ![]()
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