“The tragedy is that he left this world too early, and his extravagant life and scandalous statements did not contribute to the popularity of chess.”
Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion from Russia, reacting to the death of Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion Boris Spassky in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship.
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