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Category Archives: bobby fischer
Tobey Maguire Considers Bobby Fischer Role
A passing reference in a Deadline Hollywood article notes that Steven Knight recently completed work for Columbia Pictures “on Pawn Sacrifice, a drama about Bobby Fischer’s unlikely victory over Russian chess champ Boris Spassky. Tobey Maguire is producing and eyeing … Continue reading
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Chasing Fischer’s Father
In today’s Los Angeles Times, Peter Nicholas writes about “Chasing the King of Chess” — or, more precisely, about tracking down the truth about Fischer’s biological father, who was not Hans-Gerhardt Fischer (the Christian listed on his birth certificate) but … Continue reading
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Bobby Fischer on Film
ChessBase points us to two trailers on YouTube for new films about the late Bobby Fischer: Me and Bobby Fischer (see above) and Bobby Fischer Live (embedding disabled). The first is a disturbing but very interesting documentary focused on … Continue reading
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Fischer Photos
Fischer visits Tal in hospital (Curacao 1962). Fabrice Wantiez has posted a wonderful collection of Bobby Fischer photographs at his website, many of which (like the one above) are completely new to me.
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Fischer Birthday Remembrances
Several celebrations of Fischer’s legacy were held on March 9th to coincide with the former champion’s 65th birthday. At the Marshall Chess Club, site of “The Game of the Century,” Fischer was remembered by biographer Frank Brady and talk show … Continue reading
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Dick Cavett Remembers Bobby
The great American talk show host Dick Cavett today describes the Bobby Fischer he got to know through several interviews in his touching and fond remembrance “Was It Only a Game?” (The New York Times, February 9, 2008 — also … Continue reading
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Bobby Fischer R.I.P.
ChessBase reports that Bobby Fischer has been buried in Iceland and includes a statement by Kasparov, who notes in part that “Fischer’s relentless energy exhausted everything it touched – the resources of the game itself, his opponents on and off … Continue reading
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Bobby Fischer Dies
Bobby Fischer has died at age 64. Chess was his life, and his years were numbered to match that 8×8 world. As a “Bobby Boomer,” I have mixed feelings about his passing. It was Fischer who helped draw me into … Continue reading
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