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Both films sound like quite the rumour, but at the same time there's something exciting in the idea of Bobby Fischer's story being made by Fincher, but I have no desire to see The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo remade already, it does seem way too early for a remake to be considered, doesn't it?
Filmstalker: Fincher's remaking The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? 2010
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Nigro, who died in 2001, was famously known as Bobby Fischer's first chess teacher.
unknown title 2009
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A few chess players -- such as Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov and Mikhail Tal, in part because of their aggressive and relentless play -- thrived on their opponents 'tendency to be fear-stricken.
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Our teacher also discusses with us famous games that Grand Masters and chess champions such as Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, Emanuel Lasker, Boris Spassky and Vladimir Kramnik had once played.
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Open champion Donald Byrne, Bobby Fischer was playing so brilliantly that he could deliberately sacrifice a queen - the most powerful figure on the board - to engineer a seemingly inconceivable but absolutely inexorable march toward checkmate.
Book World: A chess master who defeated himself Michael Dirda 2011
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Of recent sacred monsters, none is so fascinating and disturbing as Bobby Fischer 1943-2008, arguably the greatest chess player of all time.
Book World: A chess master who defeated himself Michael Dirda 2011
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For 20 years, Bobby Fischer was the cynosure of the chess world - and frequently his own worst enemy.
Book World: A chess master who defeated himself Michael Dirda 2011
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For 20 years, Bobby Fischer was the cynosure of the chess world - and frequently his own worst enemy.
Book World: A chess master who defeated himself Michael Dirda 2011
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As a teenager, Brady - now the president of New York's Marshall Chess Club - met the very young Bobby Fischer and, he tells us, "Over the years we played hundreds of games together, dined in Greenwich Village restaurants, traveled to tournaments, attended dinner parties, and walked the streets of Manhattan for hours on end."
Book World: A chess master who defeated himself Michael Dirda 2011
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Of recent sacred monsters, none is so fascinating and disturbing as Bobby Fischer 1943-2008, arguably the greatest chess player of all time.
Book World: A chess master who defeated himself Michael Dirda 2011
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