God Checkmates the Pride and Sorrow of Chess

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/18/chess-master-bobby-fische_n_82144.html

Fischer, who has died at the age of 64, was a child prodigy, a teenage grandmaster and _ before age 30 _ a world champion who triumphed in a Cold War showdown with Soviet champion Boris Spassky.

But the last three decades of his life were spent in seclusion, broken periodically by erratic and often anti-Semitic comments and by an absurd legal battle with his homeland, the United States.