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R.I.P. Bobby Fischer

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

I saw in the paper that Bobby Fischer died the other day, still the holder of many chess records.

In May 1949, the six-year-old Fischer learned how to play chess from instructions found in a chess set that his sister bought at a candy store below their Brooklyn apartment.

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