Robert James Fischer was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 9, 1943. His parents were divorced in 1945, and his mother moved him and his sister to Brooklyn a year or so later. “At the age of six he acquired a chess set and soon became deeply absorbed in the game” (Hooper and Whyld 115). This was the beginning of a legend.

Bobby Fischer had many incredible chess accomplishments. At age twelve, Fischer began to visit the great Manhattan Chess Club ,which had the best players in the country, and “even then hardly anybody could beat him” (Schonberg 258). At age thirteen, Fischer beat International Master, Donald Byrne, in what was generally acknowledged as the “game of the century.” “The winning moves were perhaps the most insightful ever played by a youngster” (Pandolfini 2). In 1957, at age fourteen, he won the U.S. Junior Championship, which was a nice accomplishment for a young man of his age. However, that same year he won the U.S. Senior Championship overtaking the renowned Samuel Reshevsky, which was an amazing accomplishment for a man of any age. Fischer became the youngest grandmaster in the history of chess at age fifteen.

(from http://www.howtoadvice.com/Chess/BobbyFischer/#)

Bibliography from above web site:

Burger, Robert E., Foreword by Frank Brady The Chess of Bobby Fischer. New York: Mc Graw – Hill Company, 1979.

Hooper, David and Whyld, Kenneth The Oxford Companion To Chess. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Pandolfini, Bruce Bobby Fischer’s Outrageous Chess Moves. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1985.

Schonberg, Harold C. Grandmasters of Chess. New York London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1981.