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In October 2009, the biographical film Bobby Fischer Live [581] was released, with Damien Chapa directing and starring as Fischer. In 2011, documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus released Bobby Fischer Against the World, which explores the life of Fischer, with interviews from Garry Kasparov, Anthony Saidy, and others. [582]
In 1973, she met then world chess champion Bobby Fischer, and visited him several times for the next three decades. Starting in 2000 they reportedly lived together in a de facto marriage at her home. [2] After Bobby Fischer's detention on July 13, 2004, for trying to travel with a revoked U.S. passport, she campaigned for his release.
Jørgen Bent Larsen (4 March 1935 – 9 September 2010) was a Danish chess grandmaster and author. Known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play, he was the second-strongest non-Soviet player, behind only Bobby Fischer, for much of the 1960s and 1970s. [1]
William James Joseph Lombardy (December 4, 1937 – October 13, 2017) [3] was an American chess grandmaster, chess writer, teacher, and former Catholic priest.He was one of the leading American chess players during the 1950s and 1960s, and a contemporary of Bobby Fischer, whom he seconded during the World Chess Championship 1972.
– Bobby Fischer [3] Nigro was an American chess expert of near master strength and an instructor. [4] Nigro was President of the Brooklyn Chess Club. [5] This is where he met Bobby Fischer and in 1951 became his first chess teacher. [6] Nigro (rated 2028) hosted Fischer's first chess tournament at his home in 1952. [7]
It is true that a multi-sub-section section like this normally needs an introduction. But that is moving me in the direction of combining the previous section, "Life as an emigré", with this one, all under the title "Personal life". I am beginning to see the point of having separate "personal life" sections in Wiki biographies.
Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. [1] In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former world champion Bobby Fischer.
During a four-month period in 1981, Biyiasis played 17 five-minute games with Bobby Fischer, who was staying in his apartment at the time. Fischer, although he had been absent from competitive play for nine years, won all of them. Biyiasas said that he didn't think Fischer had lost anything in form, despite the layoff. [5]