Chess Master Bobby Fischer Dies at 64

Back in middle school I remember learning chess every Wednesday in English class, due to my teachers love for strategy. We learned about the game, and it helped us build our process for thinking ahead. During that time I recall going to the library’s and watching a movie called Searching for Bobby Fischer.

“I don’t play the old chess,” he told reporters when he arrived in Iceland in 2005. “But obviously if I did, I would be the best.”

I never found out what happened to Bobby Fischer, but this morning I was informed that Bobby Fischer had died due to kidney failure yesterday in Reykjavik hospital.

Fischer became the first U.S.-born world chess champion, after the defeat of Spassky in 1972.