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| Originally Posted by stratman Bobby Fischer, the greatest chessmaster ever produced by the USA, passed away yesterday in Reykjavik.
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RIP, Bobby
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When I was a kid in the 70's, he was held up as an icon of intellectualism. It was a pity to learn, years later, how really one-dimensional he was.
But he was a really great chess player, and he proved it. That's an OK epitaph, in my book.