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Sketch by Paul Klee. Saw his stuff at the SFMOMA yesterday ... highly recommend checking out his sketches, and maybe his life.

Bobby Fischer

At age fifteen and a half he became the youngest Grandmaster of chess, he played in the 1972 'Cold War' World Championships against Boris Spassky, and he's mentioned in one of my favorite SNL sketches of all time (the chess cheerleaders sketch starring Will Ferrel on his 'Best of' DVD ... 'Bobby Fischer, where is he? I don't know, I don't know'). All in all, a pretty interesting dude.

He died in 2008.

There was an article in the New York Times recently regarding the battle over his estate. Apparently there are three parties who are fighting for what he made winning chess.

"It turns out that the mercurial chess champ, who died in January 2008 at age 64, left behind a Japanese woman who claims she was his wife, a Filipino woman who claims she is the mother of his only child, and two estranged nephews who will inherit his money if neither woman can prove her claim.

This situation brought about an almost surreal scene earlier this month, when officials gathered in southern Iceland — where Fischer spent the last three years of his life — to exhume his body for a DNA sample to determine whether he was the father of a 9-year-old girl named Jinky."

Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/fashion/25fischer.html?_r=1&ref=style

Timber Timbre

Addicted to this right now. Listen to magic arrow ...

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