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The controversial former world chess champion, Bobby Fischer, has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
The US-born player, who became famous for beating Cold War Soviet rival Boris Spassky in 1972, died of an unspecified illness, his spokesman said.
He was granted Icelandic citizenship in 2005 as a way to avoid being deported to the US.
Mr Fischer was wanted for breaking international sanctions by playing a match in the former Yugoslavia in 1992.
He also had alienated many in his homeland by broadcasting anti-Semitic diatribes and expressing support for the 11 September 2001 attacks in New York.
I’ll avoid attacking Mr. Fischer in this post and instead praise one of his contributions to chess. He invented a different form of playing timed chess, where you are given back x amount of seconds after each move. For example, a 4/3 game would be you are given 4 minutes to play, plus you gain 3 seconds every move you make. So if your first move only takes you 1 second, you would actually gain 2 seconds and be left with 4:02. This is particularly useful in end games.
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