Chess über-Grand Master Bobby Fischer died yesterday at the age of 64, looking more like the Unabomber than a master strategist. By all accounts, Bobby Fischer was a genius. Not the throwaway meaning of "genius" that we use every day; "Whoa, Steve Jobs is a marketing genius!" No, he was the real deal. The kind of guy that had the potential to be mentioned alongside Einstein, Da Vinci, and Feynman. Fischer wasn't just a chess genius either, but a man with a phenomenal intellect. His IQ was rumored to be in the high 180s. But, like other great minds (see A Beautiful Mind), and like over-inflated tires, he reached a point of being non-functional. We've seen this story before -- a man so brilliant, his own mind couldn't cope. In the end, he was irrational, angry, and delusional. So sad.
Lets remember him in his finest hours >
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