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.