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Bobby Fischer
Robert James Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won with an 11–0 score, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. Qualifying for the 1972 World Championship, Fischer swept matches with Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen by 6–0 scores. After winn…
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science · American chess grandmaster (1943–2008) · chess player · writer · inventor · animator · Grandmaster · also Bobby Fischer, Boby Fischer, Robert James Fischer, Fischer
Born 9 March 1943 · Died 17 January 2008 · Q41314
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2026· 11 entries
“Because he imposed his will on the world.”
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“They have nothing on me, those guys. They can”
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“I applaud the act. The US and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them. Nobody gave a shit. Now it”
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“The country should be returned to the American Indians.”
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“One chess player cannot upset the good relations we have with the US and everyone here thinks it”
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“kidnapping cooked up by Bush and Koizumi”
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“I may yet be forced to admit that the Winawer is sound. But I doubt it! The defense is anti-positional and weakens the K-side.”
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“I can draw with the grandmasters, and there are half a dozen patzers in the tournament I reckon to beat.”
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The Times of India: Bobby Fischer: The champion America summoned, and Iceland sheltered
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The New York Times: Bobby Fischer
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2021· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet Neurology — cited 6,919 times.
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2020· 4 entries
Published “Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019” in Journal of the American College of Cardiology — cited 10,312 times.
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Published “Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 8,053 times.
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That he thought he had chances, although he could not say he would be favored
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,051 times.
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2018· 2 entries
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,011 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 6,199 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science — cited 60,347 times.
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2012· 2 entries
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Published “CHARMM: The biomolecular simulation program” in Journal of Computational Chemistry — cited 8,463 times.
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2008· 4 entries
Died 2008-01-17.
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Fischer died at age 64 from degenerative kidney failure at the Landspítali Hospital (National University Hospital of Iceland) in Reykjavík
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“I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.”
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“I have a minus score (against Spassky). I lost 3 and drew 2. I was better than him when I lost those games. I pressed for the win. My overall tournament record is much better than his. I'm not afraid of him, he's afraid of me.”
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2006· 2 entries
Fischer telephoned an Icelandic television station that had just broadcast a chess game in which one player blundered, allowing his opponent to mate on the next move
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That the belongings sold in the US without his permission were worth "hundreds of millions of [US] dollars; even billions of dollars"
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2005· 2 entries
The Washington Post: Japanese Release Bobby Fischer
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Some of Fischer's belongings were auctioned on eBay
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2004· 3 entries
And was therefore entitled to his estate
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Acting in response to a letter from US officials, Japanese immigration authorities arrested him at Narita International Airport near Tokyo for allegedly using a revoked US passport while trying to board a Japan Airlines
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Was arrested in Japan and held for several months for using a passport that the US government had revoked
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2002· 1 entry
Peter Nicholas and Clea Benson of The Philadelphia Inquirer published an investigative report which stated that Bobby Fischer's biological father was actually Paul Neményi
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2001· 2 entries
Philippines local time (approximately four hours after the September 11 attacks in the US), Fischer was interviewed live by Pablo Mercado on the Baguio station of the Bombo Radyo network
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Young gave birth to a daughter named Jinky Young and claimed that Fischer was the child's father
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1999· 1 entry
Gave a radio call-in interview to a station in Budapest, Hungary, during which he described himself as the "victim of an international Jewish conspiracy"
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1998· 2 entries
Published “All-Atom Empirical Potential for Molecular Modeling and Dynamics Studies of Proteins” in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B — cited 13,372 times.
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And 1999, he also stayed at the house of the young Hungarian grandmaster Peter Leko
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1992· 2 entries
In front of the international press, Fischer spat on the US order, saying "this is my reply"
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Reemerged to win an unofficial rematch against Spassky
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1981· 2 entries
While walking in Pasadena, Fischer was arrested by a police patrolman because he resembled a man who had just committed a robbery in the area
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Fischer stayed at the home of grandmaster Peter Biyiasas in San Francisco, where, over a period of four months, he defeated Biyiasas seventeen times in a series of speed games
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1977· 3 entries
"accusing it of being 'Satanic', and vigorously attacking its methods and leadership"
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Published three games he played against the MIT Greenblatt computer program Mac Hack, winning them all
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After reading The Secret World Government by Count Cherep-Spiridovich, that Jewish agencies were targeting him
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1975· 3 entries
Fischer refused to defend his title when an agreement could not be reached with FIDE, chess's international governing body, over the match conditions
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Against Anatoly Karpov, who had emerged as his challenger
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But Karpov would have qualified again and beaten Fischer in 1978
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1974· 1 entry
Fischer was willing to play the 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice, France, but FIDE rejected his demand to play in a separate room with only Fischer, his opponent, and spectators
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1972· 5 entries
Awarded world chess champion (1972).
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Left him nothing to prove, except that perhaps someone could someday beat him, and he was not interested in the risk of losing
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And peaked in 1974; in American chess, these years are commonly referred to as the "Fischer Boom"
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One journalist stated that "Fischer is almost as serious about religion as he is about chess", and the champion credited his faith with greatly improving his chess
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And Fischer declared that Armstrong was really a "false prophet"
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1971· 1 entry
While preparing for his last Candidates match with former world champion Tigran Petrosian, Fischer won the Manhattan Chess Club Rapid Tournament, scoring 21½/22 against a strong field
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded Chess Oscar (1970).
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Fischer began a new effort to become World Champion
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1969· 1 entry
Is regarded as essential reading in chess literature
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1968· 2 entries
Fischer felt philosophically that the world was coming to an end and he might as well make some money by publishing My 60 Memorable Games
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Fischer won tournaments at Netanya, with 11½/13 (+10−0=3), and Vinkovci, with 11/13 (+9−0=4), by large margins
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1966· 1 entry
Fischer narrowly missed the individual gold medal, scoring 88
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1964· 1 entry
Won with an 11–0 score, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament
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1962· 2 entries
“tournament, since the format, combined with the alleged collusion, made it impossible for a non-Soviet player to win. Following Fischer”
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“They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don”
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1961· 1 entry
Fischer started a 16-game match with Reshevsky, split between New York and Los Angeles
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1960· 2 entries
Fischer tied for first place with Soviet star Boris Spassky at the strong Mar del Plata Tournament in Argentina, winning by a two-point margin, scoring 13½/15 (+13−1=1), ahead of David Bronstein
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Protested the practices of the American Chess Foundation and staged a five-hour protest in front of the White House, urging President Dwight D
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1959· 1 entry
Its student council awarded him a gold medal for his chess achievements
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1958· 3 entries
In the Central Chess Club, Vladimir Alatortsev saw a tall, angular 15-year-old youth, who in blitz games, crushed almost everyone who crossed his path
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Studied at Erasmus Hall High School (1958).
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Fischer was invited onto the game show I've Got a Secret, where, thanks to Regina's efforts, the producers of the show arranged two round-trip tickets to the Soviet Union, for Bobby and his sister Joan
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1957· 2 entries
Fischer played a two-game match against former world champion Max Euwe at New York, losing ½–1½
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Fischer wanted to go to Moscow
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1956· 1 entry
Fischer's rating was a modest 1726, over 900 points below top-rated Samuel Reshevsky (2663)
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1952· 1 entry
Regina got Bobby a scholarship (based on his chess talent and "astronomically high IQ") to Brooklyn Community Woodward
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1950· 2 entries
Regina sent a postcard to the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper, seeking to place an ad inquiring whether other children of Bobby's age might be interested in playing chess with him
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The family moved to Brooklyn, first to an apartment at the corner of Union Street and Franklin Avenue and later to a two-bedroom apartment at 560 Lincoln Place
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1949· 1 entry
Regina moved the family to Manhattan, New York City, and the following year to Brooklyn, where she studied for her master's degree in nursing and subsequently began working in that field
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1946· 1 entry
“I had an adjourned game with Mikhail Botvinnik in which I was ahead. During the break I saw Botvinnik eating dinner and relaxing. I didn”
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1943· 2 entries
Born 1943-03-09.
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“s conditions. Whether Karpov could have beaten Fischer is a matter of speculation. Lev Alburt felt that the decision to not concede to Fischer”
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1942· 1 entry
But Neményi made monthly child support payments to Regina and paid for Bobby's schooling until Paul Neményi's death in 1952
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1938· 1 entry
Hans-Gerhardt and Regina had a daughter, Joan Fischer
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