Bobby Fischer - Popular People Bio

About

Robert James Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time. Fischer showed great skill in chess from an early age; at 13, he won a brilliancy known as “The Game of the Century”.

Nicknames
The Bad Boy of Chess

BIRTHDAY
March 9, 1943

BORN
Chicago, Illinois, United States

DIED
January 17, 2008 (age 64)

CAUSE OF DEATH
Lung cancer

ZODIAC SIGN
Pisces

EDUCATION
Erasmus Hall High School (Map)

POLITICAL VIEWS
Unknown

Nationality
Icelandic, German, American

EYE COLOR
Hazel

HAIR COLOR
Brown

HEIGHT
6ft 1 (185 cm)

WEIGHT
75 kg (165 lb)

HEIGHT
6ft 1 (1.85 m)

HANDEDNESS
Right-handed

TATTOOS
None

NET WORTH
$5 Million (2008)

Faith
Atheist

IQ
187

Personal Quotes

I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

I felt that chess… is a science in the form of a game… I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

I was never invited to the White House.