Fišer, jedan od najvećih igrača u istoriji šaha, rođen je u SAD, ali se odrekao američkog državljanstva i preselio na Island 2005. godine. On je postao svetski prvak 1972. godine kada je upravo na Islandu, u Rejkjaviku, pobedio tadašnjeg šampiona Borisa Spaskog.
Titula mu je oduzeta jer je odbio da 1975. igra protiv izazivača Anatolija Karpova.
Kada je odigrao revanš meč sa Spaskim, na Svetom Stefanu 1992, u SAD je za njim izdata poternica, jer je tadašnja SR Jugoslavija bila pod embargom UN. Potom je živeo uglavnom u Japanu, a 2005. je prešao na Island.
Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War icon by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was 64.
Born in Chicago and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Fischer was wanted in the United States for playing a 1992 rematch against Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia in defiance of international sanctions. In 2005, he moved to Iceland, a chess-mad nation and site of his greatest triumph.
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