nytimes.comREYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64.
Fischer died Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said. There was no immediate word on the cause of death.
Bobby Fischer, Chess Master, Dies at 64
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Duly noted, though not so much with sadness as with renewed appreciation for his many incredible deeds at the chessboard. In the life form that distinguished him, the chess one, his physical being had already left from here years ago.