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January 18, 2008

Former Chess Champion Bobby Fischer Dies at 64
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became famous when he beat Soviet chess champion Boris Spassky in 1972





Former chess champion Bobby Fischer leaves New Tokyo International
Airport in Narita in March 2005 file photo

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died in Iceland. He was
64 years old.

A spokesman says Fischer died at a Reykjavik hospital of kidney
failure, after a long illness.

The U.S.-born Fischer became famous when he beat Soviet chess champion
Boris Spassky in 1972.

The United States charged Fischer with violating international
sanctions when he won a 1992 exhibition rematch with Spassky in the
former Yugoslavia.

Fischer later renounced his American citizenship and moved to Iceland
in 2005 where he was granted citizenship.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.


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