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The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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