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   Bobby Fischer

   Based on Fischer's rating, the USCF invited him to play in the 1957-58 U.S. Championship. ... The tournament was an "ordeal" for Fischer, who had to endure eight-hour and sometimes even twelve-hour playing sessions.
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   List of people who have beaten Bobby Fischer in chess

   The following people have beaten Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) in a regular game of chess—not a game played at odds. ... Nash won their first meeting at the 1956 U.S. Amateur Championship.
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   Searching for Bobby Fischer

   This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Searching for Bobby Fischer is a 1993 film based on the life of prodigy chess player Joshua Waitzkin, played by Max Pomeranc.
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   World Chess Championship 1972

   The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the World Chess Championship. ... Spassky played 27.Qc2??
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   World Chess Championship

   | 11 | Bobby Fischer | 1972–1975 | United States | 29–32 | ... Botvinnik played just one more world championship match, the World Chess Championship 1963 against the Armenian Tigran Petrosian, losing it 12.5 – 9.5.
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   Fischer Defense

   After Bobby Fischer lost a 1960 game at Mar del Plata to Boris Spassky, in which Spassky played the Kieseritzky Gambit, Fischer left in tears and promptly went to work at devising a new defense to the King's Gambit. ... ↑ Fischer-Evans, 1963-64 U.S. Championship.
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   The Game of the Century (chess)

   The Game of the Century usually refers to a chess game played between Donald Byrne and the 13-year old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City on October 17, 1956. ... Following this game, he had a meteoric rise, winning the 1957 U.S. Open on tiebreaks, winning the 1957-58 U.S. (Closed) Championship (and all seven later championships he played in), qualifying for the Candidates Tournament and becoming the world's youngest grandmaster at age 15 in 1958.
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   William Lombardy

   Lombardy represented his country in several Chess Olympiads, and played many times in the US Chess Championship. ... In 1972, Bobby Fischer was scheduled to play a match against Boris Spassky for the World Chess Championship.
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   Arthur Bisguier

   He played for the United States in five chess Olympiads. ... The late 1950s saw the sensational rise of Bobby Fischer, who swept the eight U.S. Championship tournaments which he contested.
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    World Chess Championship 1963

    The Zonal tournament was replayed in the summer of 1961 at Mariánské Lázně, Czechoslovakia, with Ólafsson, Miroslav Filip (Czechoslovakia), and Uhlmann qualifying. ... Top finishers in the championship were Bobby Fischer with 9/11, William Lombardy with 7, Raymond Weinstein with 6.5, and Arthur Bisguier, Samuel Reshevsky, and James Sherwin with 6.

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