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In Reply to: He was one of many great players posted by Victor Khomenko on October 3, 2011 at 16:45:22:
"Widely considered a "chess legend",[1][2] at age 13 Fischer won a "brilliancy" that became known as The Game of the Century. Starting at age 14, he played in eight United States Championships, winning each by at least a point. At 15½, he became both the youngest grandmaster and the youngest candidate for the World Championship up until that time. He won the 1963–64 U.S. Championship 11–0, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. In the early 1970s he became the most dominant player in modern history—winning the 1970 Interzonal by a record 3½-point margin and winning 20 consecutive games, including two unprecedented 6–0 sweeps in the Candidates Matches. According to research by Jeff Sonas, in 1971 Fischer had separated himself from the rest of the world by a larger margin of playing skill than any player since the 1870s.[3] He became the first official World Chess Federation (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) (FIDE) number one rated chess player in July 1971, and his 54 total months at number one is the third longest of all time."
This does not even consider the context in which he achieved this status. A loner from NY competing against a Soviet super system with practically unlimited resources designed to build super chess players
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Follow Ups
- Just to set the record straight on his status as a player - Analog Scott 16:51:14 10/04/11 (6)
- "the third longest of all time." Case closed. nt - Victor Khomenko 17:51:54 10/04/11 (5)
- You are too delluded by hate to even see what the case actually is - Analog Scott 19:09:12 10/04/11 (4)
- US is not the world - Victor Khomenko 19:28:06 10/04/11 (3)
- Who said it was the world? - Analog Scott 20:21:59 10/04/11 (2)
- "Bobby Fischer was at one point one of the most famous persons on earth. " - Victor Khomenko 05:54:27 10/05/11 (1)
- It was an international event and symbolic of the cold war - Analog Scott 07:32:24 10/05/11 (0)
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