Checkmate
Submitted by Robert Daeley on Fri, 2008-01-18 10:18.
Bobby Fischer, dead at 64.
He is a tragic figure, no doubt, an astounding genius on the chessboard and symbol of American defiance in the face of Russian domination of the game. He contributed immensely to chess theory. He even inspired a 1993 movie that I saw several times and enjoyed very much. Fischer was enigmatic, secluded, and mysterious for years.
Not to speak ill of the dead, but one wishes he had stayed missing.