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Putting aside his faults, Bobby Fischer, dead 2008, reached for the top and got there. He got me interested in chess.




Weird dude; genius and the best player ever though. You see that movie Searching for Bobby Fischer? Think I'll watch that tonight since you brught him up.
eh, I thought it was a crap movie really, kind of hokey. Nothing to do with Fischer really. But that's just me.

I do consider him the best all time, in the sense that he was further ahead of his contemporaries than other greats, and that includes Kasparov, who was probably stronger in absolute terms than Fischer. The only player that maybe matched Fischer for absolute dominance was Paul Morphy back in the 1850s