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Thread #107828   Message #2239156
Posted By: Rapparee
18-Jan-08 - 08:50 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Bobby Fischer (Chessmaster)[Jan 2008]
Subject: Obit: Bobby Fischer (Chessmaster)
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) - Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64. Fischer died Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said. There was no immediate word on the cause of death.