Whose Birthday Is It? March 9, 2016

Bobby Fischer (1943)

Fischer was a chess legend who, at the age of15, became the youngest grandmaster inhistory at that time. In 1970 and 1971, he wonan unprecedented 20 straight games to qualifyto challenge Boris Spassky for the world championship. He thenbeat Spassky, becoming the only American world titlist andwinning the lion’s share of the $250,000 prize fund that was thenthe largest purse offered in any sport outside boxing. Afterward,Fischer did not publicly play another game of chess until whatyear? More…

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