Originally posted by Angus
Do you have more on that book? I'd love to be able to beat my brother and my best friend, and my wife would love to be able to beat me 
Anyway, he has been buried, in a farm graveyard in the south of Iceland. A good friend of mine lives there. Apparantly Fisher was a regular guest at their place, and they kept silent about it. Sucks to be famous....
His last words were "Nothing takes away pain better than a human touch".
Not sure of cause of death, but he had been ill for a while.
The official cause of death was kidney failure. Although no explanation has been given for the cause of this failure. Fischer was only 64 years old, not that old of a man.
Fischer had a very difficult childhood. His parents divorced when he was only two, and his mother raised him by herself after that. His parents had divorced because Fischer's mother had had an affair with a brilliant Hungarian Scientist by the name of Paul F. Nemenyi, who is now generally recognized as being his real father. So the poor man never had any kind of father, and never even met his real father.
His mother was a very active leftist and supporter of Communism. She was also Jewish. ( And strangely enough, so was Paul F. Nemenyi, so that made Fischer 100% Jewish. )
Fischer developed an extreme hatred of both Communism and Jews, because of his feelings for his mother. When he went into seclusion after winning the world chess championship in 1972, he became an avid reader of books about the Nazis and Adolf Hitler.
However, he eventually turned against the United States also, which he believed was being run by Jews, and was also supporting Israel. He has been living abroad in a number of countries for many years, including the Philippines and Japan.
I believe that Dennis Surrey made the best comment about Bobby Fischer this past week to the press:
"Between genius and madness there is only a fine line."
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