Complete article: http://www.nysun.com/article/70166
Bobby Fischer - R.I.P. |
Chess |
By BORIS GULKO and GABRIEL SCHOENFELD
January 25, 2008
Bobby Fischer, who died this week at the age of 64, was the greatest American player ever, and also the most tragic, a gloomy real-life version of Luzhin, the chess genius in Nabokov's novel, The Defense, who suffers a mental breakdown during his quest for the world championship.
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Fischer's encounter with Donald Byrne in 1956, played when Fischer was 14 years old, has been called "the game of the century."
BYRNE VS. FISCHER
(White) (Black)