The greatest chess
player of all time. Real name being ,
Robert James Fischer, Bobby was a chess prodigy who begun the game of chess at the age of 6 and became the youngest Grandmaster and World-title candidate at the mere age of 15. He stunned all his opponents with his vast and profound knowledge of chess from such a young age. He went on to play the US Championships 8 times in total, winning all of them, and achieving the only
perfect 11 out of 11 score ever to be achieved in one of them, which has yet to be replicated. He went on to challenge the World Chess Championship in 1972 challenging some of the most brilliant minds in chess history such as Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen in the Candidates round Defeating them with
perfect scores of 6-0 while achieving a 6 1/2 - 2 1/2 with Tigran Petrosian. He went on to challenge the World Champion Borris Spassky whom he had always
lost to and
lost the first 2 matches, putting him at a disadvantage, but quickly gained composure and won the match 12 1/2 - 6 1/2 becoming the 11th world champion, but gave chess up after attaing it. For a brief moment, during 1970's Bobby Fischer became a superstar and popularised chess to its current state. His charismatic egoism and pure dominance over his competition made him renowned throughout the world as the best chess
player to have walked the
Earth.
Bobby Fischer (March 9, 1943 –
January 17, 2008) was an American chess Grandmaster and the eleventh
World Chess Champion. Many consider him to be the greatest chess
player of all time.