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Bobby Fischer

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American chess grandmaster who won the world championship after Pal Benko gave up his spot in the 1970 Interzonal to allow Fischer to compete.

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"There's also Chess 96, which even bobby Fischer and kosparov recommend. Chess 96, if you don't know, is a variation of chess where the initial setting for the back row pieces are randomized, which creates a more complex game, and opening theory can't help you as much, so you have to figure stuff out"
I fell out of love with Chess and I think I know now why · u/Winternaht7 · ↑93 · 2023-04-28
"Pal Benko, who had dug ditches for the Hungarian army in WWII, who had been captured by the Soviets, who became Hungarian Champion at 20, who had been imprisoned in Stalin's Russia for 16 months for trying to defect, who did successfully defect, who had twice played in the Candidates', and had given"
"who had given up his spot in the 1970 Interzonal to Bobby Fischer to go on to win the world championship"
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