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Chess great and enigma Bobby Fischer dies
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.
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Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky of Russia, play their final match in the 1972 faceoff in Reykjavik, Iceland. Fisher died in a Reykjavik, Iceland, hospital on Thursday of kidney failure after a long illness, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said Friday. Fischer made history by dethroning Spassky.
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