In case you haven’t heard, the former chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer has just died at the age of 64. (source). For those of you who don’t know him, he is considered one of the greatest chess players that ever lived.
Unfortunately, in the latter years of his life, his mind became very troubled, and he eventually became a recluse. This is too bad because had this not happened, I’m sure he would have been able to contribute much more to chess theory.
Fischer’s death is actually the second high-profile death over the past week. Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest [along with Tenzing Norgay], died a week before.
(Trivia: Tony Shalhoub, whom we all know voiced Luigi in Cars, makes a cameo appearance in the brilliant film Searching for Bobby Fischer. The movie isn’t directly about Fischer, but it does make several allusions to him.)