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  Bobby Fischer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert James Fischer was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Regina Wender, a naturalized American citizen of Jewish Polish ancestry who was born in Switzerland, raised in St.
It was alleged by Fischer and others that because of the number of Russian players involved in the tournament (the Soviet Union dominated international chess competition throughout most of its history), it was possible for them to agree on short draws among themselves and concentrate their full efforts on the non-Russian contingent.
Fischer, who insists to this day that he is still the World Champion because he never lost a title match, demanded that the organizers bill the match as "The World Chess Championship," although at this time Garry Kasparov was the recognized FIDE champion.
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 Bobby Fischer
Fischer was born in Chicago to Regina Wender, an American riveter in a defense plant who later became a teacher, nurse and physician, and Hans-Gerhardt Fischer, a German biophysicist.
Nobody gave the young Fischer much of a chance of qualifying from the Interzonal (the top six places qualified for the Candidates Tournament), so it was a surprise when, after a good finish, Fischer finished fifth equal and qualified, and with it he was awarded the title of International Grandmaster.
Fischer used a genuine passport that the U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland issued to him in 1997, but which was revoked in 2003.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/bobby_fischer.html   (3574 words)

  
 The Amazing Robert James 'Bobby' Fischer
Fischer can also remember most of his speed games, in which both players are limited to five minutes to make all of their moves.
Fischer was a monomaniac, he had an obsession with one idea and that was to be the "Best Chessplayer of All time." People who were around Fischer would say that he studies chess day and night, and that they have never seen him do anything but chess.
Fischer satisfied his emotional life through the losses of his opponents, and that was why it was so important to win.
www.howtoadvice.com /Chess/BobbyFischer   (1166 words)

  
 ROBERT JAMES FISCHER by Bill Wall (Sep 20, 2004)
Robert James (Bobby) Fischer was born at 2:39 pm on March 9, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois (Michael Reese hospital) to Regina Wender Fischer Pustan (born in Switzerland of Jewish parents on March 31, 1913) and Hans-Gerhardt Fischer (born September 28, 1908).
Fischer's mother wrote to Paul Nemenyi that the family was too poor to even afford to patch Bobby's torn shoes.
Fischer was headed to Manila, Philippines at the time on a Japan Airlines flight (JL 745) Fischer was told that he would be deported to the United States to face charges.
www.geocities.com /siliconvalley/lab/7378/fischer.htm   (5766 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The Fischer king
Fischer is larger than life: he meets the world's idea of what a chess player should be - crazed, obsessed by the game, able to express himself solely through chess combinations.
Fischer was born in Chicago in 1943 but grew up in Brooklyn, where his mother moved after she divorced Bobby's father.
The basis of the Fischer legend as a chess player (as opposed to a crackpot celebrity) are his results in the series of games that propelled him to the world championship match with Spassky.
www.guardian.co.uk /usa/story/0,12271,1444253,00.html   (1262 words)

  
 ROBERT LUCAS FISCHER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Fischer was Chief, Strategic Affairs Division in the Strategic and Nuclear Affairs Bureau of ACDA.
Fischer was Chief of the Theater Affairs Division, responsible for ACDA’s involvement in INF arms control issues and for support of the U.S. delegation to the INF negotiations.
Fischer graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964 with a B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics; he also received a B.S. in Political Science at M.I.T. in 1965.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /acda/aboutacd/fischer.htm   (171 words)

  
 Bobby Fischer
Robert James Fischer was born in Chicago, Illinois at the Michael Reese Hospital by the banks of Lake Michigan on March 9th, 1943.
His father Gerhardth Fischer was born in Berlin, Germany in 1909, he was a biophysicist.
Chess master Bobby Fischer has been offered a new home in Iceland, but it's not clear if he'll be able to make the move from Japan, where he is being detained.
www.chess-poster.com /great_players/fischer.htm   (2255 words)

  
 Bobby Fischer
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer is a former chess champion, the first American ever to hold the FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs, or World Chess Federation) championship.
Fischer's parents divorced when he was a toddler.
Fischer was considered an American hero, and his nerdy face was on the cover of Time, Newsweek, and Sports Illustrated.
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 Robert (Bobby) Fischer
Robert James Fischer is considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time.
In 1996 Fischer launched a new game called "Fischerandom Chess" in which the major pieces on the back rank are randomly shuffled behind their pawns.
Fischer maintained that this form of chess was a better test of a player's skill and got away from opening theory homework.
www.chesscorner.com /worldchamps/fischer/fischer.htm   (194 words)

  
 A Tribute to Robert James Fischer
Fischer's popularization of the game he loves has also had a pronounced effect on chess literature.
From his results we can safely conclude that Robert James Fischer is the strongest chess player the world has ever known.
From the diversity of openings that he has played with a profound understanding, it is clear that in that area of the game his knowledge has never before been equaled.
www.chessmaniac.com /Bobby_Fischer/Bobby_Fischer_Articles1.shtm   (330 words)

  
 Fischer moved to long-term detention - (United Press International)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Fischer, who became world chess champion when he was 29 years old, was originally detained at Narita Airport on July 13, as he was leaving Japan for the Philippines.
U.S. authorities declared Fischer's passport invalid last December in connection with his receipt of $3 million in prize money from a chess match played in Yugoslavia in 1992, when the country was under U.S. economic sanctions.
Fischer claimed that to his knowledge his passport, issued in 1997, was valid until the expiry date in 2007.
www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20040811-050147-1106r.htm   (169 words)

  
 World Affairs Council of St. Louis Appoints Robert A. Fischer Executive Director
The executive committee of the World Affairs Council of St. Louis announced its appointment of Robert A. Fischer as executive director.
Fischer come to the Council from a distinguished career leading the domestic and international business divisions of mid-sized and Fortune 100 companies.
Fischer joins the Council's team when St. Louisans are eager to learn more about the world and the United States role in post-September 11 events.
www.scanews.com /spot/2002/january/s595/wac/wac.html   (499 words)

  
 ROBERT JAMES FISCHER by Bill Wall (Sep 20, 2004)
Carmine Nigro was Bobby Fischer's only chess instructor.
Fischer's USCF rating was 1625 after this event.
Fischer's USCF rating was 2636, behind Reshevsky's 2693 rating.
www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Lab/7378/fischer.htm   (5766 words)

  
 The chess games of Robert James Fischer
Robert James Fischer was born on March 9, 1943, in Chicago.
This action violated a U.N. sanction, and Fischer evaded authorities for twelve years until July 16, 2004, when he was arrested in Japan.
In fact, as Fischer's repertoire was so narrow, the Najdorf Sicilian was the only opening preparation that could have been explored.
www.chessgames.com /perl/chessplayer?pid=19233   (1234 words)

  
 Bobby Fischer Chess Resource   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Fischer, Bobby, born in 1943, American chess player, who in 1972 became the first American chess player to win the world championship.
Fischer learned to play chess when he was 6 years old, and at the age of 13 he became the youngest national junior chess champion in the United States; at 14 he was the youngest senior champion.
In 1975 the International Chess Federation refused to meet Fischer's conditions for a match with the Soviet challenger, Anatoly Karpov, and the title was awarded to Karpov.
www.strategicchess.com /chess/bobbyfischerchess.html   (900 words)

  
 In Memoriam Robert A. Fischer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
6, 2002—Robert A. Fischer, 81, a leading Delaware agricultural businessman and longtime friend of the University of Delaware for whom the Fischer Greenhouse Laboratory is named, died Dec. 1.
Dedicated in 1990, the Fischer Greenhouse Laboratory, located behind Townsend Hall, is a state-of-the art facility consisting of a headhouse connected to two greenhouse ranges with computer-assisted environmental controls as well as a lecture room and a laboratory.
Funding for the $1.85 million project included a $1 million grant from the Longwood Foundation and monies raised by a fundraising campaign chaired by the son of the laboratory’s namesake, Robert A. Fischer Jr., a UD trustee since 1976.
www.udel.edu /PR/UDaily/01-02/rfischer.html   (155 words)

  
 Zero News Datapool Robert Andreas Fischer Protohistoric roots of the network self
And it is within the tension between protohistorical indigenous and non-european information and communication systems and the emancipatory movements and practices of the alphabetical mind that we can find the models for the constitution of a networked self for the digital mind.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Fischer, R.A. "On the emergence of a cybernetic mass-culture and its implications for the making of art", in Heinz Horat (Ed.), Swiss Art, (New York, Hudsons Hill) : 259 - 273.
Fischer, R.A. The savage Media - A media-anthropological evaluation of the technologization of aboriginal communication-modes with special regard to the Warlpiri video-work in Yuendumu (Zurich, unpublished manuscript) Glowscewski B. Les reveurs du d_sert (Paris) Legendi, Tamas & Szentivanyi Timor (1983).
www.t0.or.at /bfischer/protonet.htm   (3089 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Bobby Fischer (Games And Hobbies, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Bobby Fischer (Robert James Fischer)[fish´ur] Pronunciation Key, 1943–, American chess player, b.
When he overwhelmed Spassky in 1972, he became the only American world titlist and, according to a consensus of grandmasters, the strongest chess player in history.
From then until 1992, Fischer did not play a single game of chess in public.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FischerB.html   (234 words)

  
 Paul Fischer Interviews Robert Englund
Lying down in his hotel room sofa in Beverly Hills, the 54-year old star of Freddy vs. Jason is busily promoting his latest outing as Freddy Krueger, from London to Texas and here in Los Angeles.
Robert Englund began his acting training at age 12, taking a variety of drama courses before making his first professional appearance in a Cleveland production of Godspell.
His first film role was the self-important Whitey in Buster and Billie (1974), after which he paid his dues in a series of villainous bit parts: shooting down Burt Reynolds at the end of Hustle (1975); beating up Kris Kristofferson in A Star is Born (1976); as well as appearing in many a seventies classic.
www.filmmonthly.com /Profiles/Articles/REnglund/REnglund.html   (1082 words)

  
 Ajedrez, 1971, Robert Fischer y Tigran Petrosian, El partido que jugaron todos, historia, 70s, setentas, politica, ...
Fischer (un profesional nato) embolsará los 7.500 dólares estipulados para el ganador, y acaso obtenga algunas extras si acepta el ofrecimiento que le acercó Ernesto Cilley Hernández, subsecretario de Deportes de Bienestar Social, para realizar una gira por el interior.
Fischer adujo que había venido a la Argentina a jugar al ajedrez, no a hablar de ajedrez.
De ningún modo Bobby Fischer puede ser acaparado por nadie porque es un muchacho de una terrible fuerza vital, que sabe lo que quiere y no tolera ninguna fiscalización de sus actos.
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 Paul Fischer Interviews Robert Downey Jr
It hasn't been the easiest lives for Robert Downey, arguably one of the most intensely charming and charismatic actors of his generation.
At the Sundance Film Festival for the world premiere of his latest film, The Singing Detective, most of us who saw it agreed on two things: One, a second Oscar nomination is a distinct possibility and Two, portraying a character with hallucinatory alter-egos could well be a case of art imitating life.
Paul Fischer tried to dig beneath a complex psyche amidst the wintry chaos of Sundance.
www.filmmonthly.com /Profiles/Articles/RDowneyJr/RDowneyJr.html   (1518 words)

  
 Newsroom | Press Releases | The viaLink Company Appoints Marketing Veteran Robert K. Fischer as Vice President of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Fischer will establish viaLink's Chicago office, from which he will direct the company's marketing, public relations and brand management activities.
Prior to this role, Fischer had extensive experience with Fortune 500 companies, as well as start-up ventures in software and packaged goods marketing.
"Robert's retail business development capabilities, marketing experience in the consumer packaged goods industry, and proven leadership in growing new ventures are a great fit for viaLink," stated Lewis B. "Bucky" Kilbourne, chief executive officer of The viaLink Company.
www.vialink.com /newsroom/press_releases/10_20_99.html   (285 words)

  
 Robert Fischer of Professional Process Servers & Investigators in Ft. Lauderdale and Miami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Robert Fischer of Professional Process Servers and Investigators in Ft. Lauderdale and Miami
Fischer is a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency and his background training has assisted him in becoming a highly productive process server with one of the highest success ratios in the county.
He is well known and liked by his peers and his knowledge of the statutes makes him quick on his feet in any given situation.
www.proprocessservers.com /bio.html   (115 words)

  
 Macomb Daily : Sports : Robert E. Fischer 07/09/04
Robert Emory Fischer, 82, of Shelby Township, died Wednesday, July 7, 2004, in Shelby Township.
He is survived by his children, Robert N., Jane (Robert) Willard, Carol (Roger) Lau, Dorothy (Ronald) Smith, Thomas (Gail), James (Lena) and Debra (Dennis) Dryer; 17 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
He was predeceased by his wife, Dorothy Eleine; and brother, Richard Joseph Fischer.
www.macombdaily.com /stories/070904/obi_20040709002.shtml   (245 words)

  
 Donald Byrne - Robert J. Fischer
Fischer seizes a chance to enter a line - which at that time - was
Fischer wins a tempo off of Byrne's Queen, so that he can now develop his QB.
July 16th, 2004: Robert J. Fischer was arrested today in Japan, by the time you read this, it will probably be very old news.
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 baysholiss
After winning the world title from Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland, 1972, he retired without defending his title.
Fischer had been drifting quietly into seclusion, finding refuge in Herbert W. Armstrong Worldwide Church of God, a religious sect based in Pasadena that he had flirted with some years.
It was within its ranks that he met Claudia Mokarow (Wife of former WCG minister Arthur Mokarow), a woman whom he would also refer to as," Mommy." In Claudia, Fischer found someone to screen his calls and otherwise protect him from the inquiring world.
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