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9.March.1943 - 17.January.2008, ChessBase News' lead-in today says
''Rest in Peace, Bobby.'' Fischer in OrthoChess ended really 35 years
ago for practical purposes.  'Fischerandom' is Bobby's further radical, controversial contribution from 1996 and makes good points on onslaught from computers for competitive Chess, seen even in CVPage articles. Accompanying 'ChessboardMath' comment of the automaton 'Turk' shows, people actually thought about Chess playing out periodically over two hundred years ago, on Philidor's systematization and the very idea of machines playing. Chess fans thank Iceland for respecting the World Championship twice. And Fischer for the tension, of course and the game-scores, though they are proportionately far less studied than Philidor's, by the current impatience over memorized openings, and diminishment in Chess' being the premier test of mental skill. Somehow excluding health or politics, iconic 'Bobby' would be protesting still.