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   Bobby Fischer

   Fischer defeated Bent Larsen in a summer 1962 exhibition game in Copenhagen for Danish TV. ... ↑ "Chess champion Bobby Fischer dies".
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   Laugardalshöll

   Perhaps the most prominent event to be held at Laugardalshöll was the World Chess Championship 1972, often dubbed the "Match of the Century", in which American challenger Bobby Fischer defeated the Russia champion Boris Spassky.
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   List of people who have beaten Bobby Fischer in chess

   Letelier defeated Fischer in 1959 at Mar del Plata, in a game which according to Mednis (How to Beat Bobby Fischer), featured Fischer's worst move ever. ... Pavey was the 1939 Scottish Champion.
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   World Chess Championship

   If a champion was defeated, he had a right to join in a three way match three years later with his successor and the next challenger. ... The next championship, held in Reykjavík (Iceland) in 1972, saw the first non-Soviet finalist since before World War II (the first under FIDE), the young American, Bobby Fischer.
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   Boris Spassky

   He first drew wide attention in 1947 at age ten, when he defeated Soviet champion Botvinnik in a simultaneous exhibition. ... | Preceded by Tigran Petrosian | World Chess Champion 1969–1972 | Succeeded by Bobby Fischer |
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   Searching for Bobby Fischer

   Zilber, Latvian chess champion in 1958, defeated Tal in 1952, and during most of the 1980s was homeless and regarded as one the top players in Madison Square Park. ... Searching For Bobby Fischer Trivia.
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   Garry Kasparov

   At age 19, he was the youngest Candidate since Bobby Fischer, who was 15 when he qualified in 1958. ... At the time, the FIDE rules granted a defeated champion the right to rematch.
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   World Chess Championship 1972

   | | | Bobby Fischer United States | 6 | | ... Fischer at first refused to accept the legality of this, preferring the traditional signing of the scoresheet, but he ultimately acquiesced, and became the 11th World Chess Champion.
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   Bent Larsen

   In 1970 he was 2nd in the Palma de Mallorca Interzonal, on 15/23, behind Bobby Fischer. ... Bent Larsen vs Tigran Petrosian, Santa Monica 1966, Sicilian Defence, Accelerated Dragon Variation (B39), 1-0 Larsen unleashes a queen sacrifice to defeat the World Champion.
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    Development of the World Chess Championship

    A defeated champion would have the right to a return match, a provision which enabled Botvinnik to regain his title from Vasily Smyslov in 1958 and from Mikhail Tal in 1961. ... After the 1962 Candidates Tournament, Bobby Fischer publicly alleged that the Soviets had colluded to prevent any non-Soviet – specifically him – from winning.

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• Bobby Fischer,
• Laugardalshöll,
• List of people who have beaten Bobby Fischer in chess,
• World Chess Championship,
• Boris Spassky,
• Searching for Bobby Fischer,
• Garry Kasparov,
• World Chess Championship 1972,
• Bent Larsen,
• Development of the World Chess Championship