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Bobby Fischer, Chess Master, Dies at 64
‘Bobby Fischer the rebel, the enfant-terrible, the tantrum-thrower, the uncompromising savage of the chess board, had captured the imagination of the world. Because of him, for the first time in the United States the game, with all its arcana and intimations of nerdiness, was cool.’ The New York Times’s obituary also explores how Fischer’s 1972 battle with chess master Boris Spassky became a Cold War flashpoint, his 20-year exile, and his late-in-life fascination with anti-Semitic and September 11 conspiracy theories. The Guardian’s obit explores this theme further.
