Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was 64.Fisher died in a Reykjavik hospital on Thursday of kidney failure after a long illness, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said Friday.
Fischer lost his world title in 1975 after refusing to defend it against Anatoly Karpov. He dropped out of competitive chess and largely out of view, emerging occasionally to make erratic and often anti-Semitic comments, although his mother was Jewish.
Seems that Fischer couldn't go with the ole Knight to Rook 6 to get out of this jam. Ah chess metaphors, they work so well since nobody knows what the hell your talking about. I once played chess. It was going well until I realized that I could be sitting on the couch, watching TV, and stuffing my face with delectable trans fats. That, or starting my own porn production company, "Classy Lee's Classless Films". It's all about truth in advertising.
(Oh, the artsy pic of that girl. In honor of this wack job dying in Iceland I have decided to put a pick of a Iclandic chick as opposed to the bearded weirdo).
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