Bobby Fischer
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Robert James Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won wit
Fischer in 1972
William Lombardy (left) and Fischer analyzing, with Jack Collins (center) looking on
Fischer in Cuba, March 1956
Fischer in 1956
Miyoko Watai
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Miyoko Watai is a Japanese retired chess player and widow of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer.
Bobby Fischer
…and, if that was not possible, "to put [him] in the same cell with Bobby Fischer" and "to give [them] a chess set". It was reported that Fischer and Miyoko Watai, the President of the Japanese Chess Association (with whom he had reportedly been living since 2000), wanted to become legally married. It was also…
Watai at the 1980 Chess Olympiad