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The eccentric chess champion bobby fischer has died - je 19.01.2008

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Sebastian KatzerJanuary 19, 2008

Chess fans around the world have been remembering America's first and only world chess champion, Bobby Fischer. The eccentric Fischer died in Iceland - a country that had given him citizenship. He was wanted in the US for breaking an embargo against the former Yugoslavia by playing a match there in 1992. +++SYN-MAZ+++

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