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Location | World Chess Championship match, Iceland, 1972 |
Photographer | Harry Benson |
Robert James ‘Bobby’ Fischer (* 9. March 1943 in Chicago; † 17. January 2008 in Reykjavik, Island) is still considered one of the best chess players in the world and was the chess world champion from 1972 to 1975. At just 16 years of age, he participated in a candidates' tournament to determine who would go on and face the world champion. He won the title in 1972 in Reykjavik, at almost 30 years of age, in a match against Boris Spassky, which...