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...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....
...The legendary Bobby Fischer, who many US fans still consider the all-time No1 ahead of Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen, made his reputation as a global icon by his early stellar performances in the US...
...Only Bobby Fischer in 1959 and Carlsen in 2006, both then 16, have been younger Candidates, and both were also-rans....
...Is it Bobby Fischer, the US loner who single-handedly defeated the Soviet chess empire, outclassed top opponents by wide margins, won the world crown from Boris Spassky, and triggered a global boom?...
...While Carlsen’s positive reputation as one of three greatest of all time, alongside Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov, is already secure, Ding is in real danger of creating a negative record, as the worst...
...Realistically, though, there are now fewer world class prospects than in the golden era of the 1970s, when the Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky match sparked the interest of teenagers at grammar and public...
...Among the most expensive approved gene therapies are uniQure’s haemophilia B treatment Hemgenix, at $3.5mn and Bluebird’s thalassaemia drug Zynteglo, which is priced at $2.8mn....
...The magnitude of his achievement was not lost on Niemann, who posted a message on X comparing himself to Bobby Fischer (who also won at Zagreb, in 1970) and quoting Friedrich Nietzsche....
...Age 14-15 has been a breakthrough year for several top players in the past, including the world champions Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov, and Royal has made his own quantum jump in the past few months....
...In the eyes of many, his consistency is edging him ahead of Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer as the greatest of all time....
...Appels, a percussive piece — rainsticks, kettledrums, bells — by French-Mexican new wave R&B artist Andrea Balency-Béarn was followed by Cage Letters, a piano setting of three of John Cage’s love letters...
...The ageing survivors of the 1970s Bobby Fischer boom learnt their skills in giant weekend congresses and thriving chess clubs....
...A new US world champion to follow Bobby Fischer has long been an ambition of FT reader and St Louis benefactor Rex Sinquefield, and the tide of chess history has begun to flow in Sinquefield’s favour....
...Fischer and Garry Kasparov, as well as the three Polgar sisters....
...Into the breach stepped his godfather, the plantsman Bobby Jenkinson, and his American grandmother, Lady Herbert, née Helen Gammell, from a Rhode Island business dynasty....
...He will be the third youngest Candidate ever, after Carlsen and Bobby Fischer....
...Ever since Bobby Fischer won all his 11 games in the US championship 60 years ago, the concept of a maximum score has fascinated the world’s top chess players....
...Long before that, medical papyri show that the ancient Egyptians were working on an elixir of eternal youth (mummification was merely Plan B)....
...“Why would you want the B team when you still have the A team available?” asked Bobby Kaufmann, an Iowa state legislator who has endorsed Trump. “He changed Washington....
...Could that be the final flourish that is needed to sign his name atop the mountain, and definitively put him clear of Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer? This fan hopes so. Brad StarrLondon SE15, UK...
...Atkins was third at Hanover 1902 in a tournament where most of the international greats took part, while Penrose beat the world champion Mikhail Tal and had a winning position against Bobby Fischer at Leipzig...
...Their combined acreage will further drive the basin’s output to about 2mn b/d by 2027. All told, Exxon will have access to 16bn oil-equivalent barrels, with 15 to 20 years of remaining inventory....
...US oil production rocketed from about 5mn barrels a day in 2008 to 13mn b/d this year....
...His chief aide has this week been revealed to be the last Russian world champion Vlad Kramnik, himself the heir to the golden days of Soviet chess when all the champions bar Bobby Fischer came from the USSR...
...Arora handed over to Russo in September, though his brother Bobby remains with the business and the family still owns about 7 per cent of the shares....
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