 | Drummond (54)
12/13/2006 | Walked out of the chess championship without playing a game because FIDE (the international chess association) wouldn't agree to a rule that would give him an advantage against challenger Anatoly Karpov (who would have had to win 10 games to win the match, with Fischer only having to win 9).
Fischer's win against Spaasky in 1972 was partly won on psychology, Fischer having complained about everything from the lighting and shapes of pieces, to the presence of cameras (Spaasky, who did not want to win by default, finally agreed to move the games into a private room out of public view - to the disappointment of many observers).
He then didn't play a single professional game for 20 years. He's never returned to his prior level of play.
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 | hotel283 (20)
05/29/2006 |  Bobby Fisher, the bastard love child of U.S. Chess genius Bobby Fischer, carved his own niche in the world of board games. Who could forget his triumphant 1983 victory over the dread Grand Master from Togo, Sunday Oliseh?
Though an American game, "Hungry, Hungry Hippos" became an obsession world wide. Togoans, their country plagued with scores of hippos, soon became the masters of the sport. Most Togoans had felt the wrath of a real hungy, hungry hippo and were one with the varicous attitude needed to rule the world - via the game.
The great clash occured in 1992, certainly the nadir of U.S.- Togo relations. The political tension between the two great nations only added to the drama. Oliseh had a cadre of Hippo grand masters aiding him. Fisher had only his "megadiet" - largely Cheetos and orange soda - aiding him. However, Fisher's measured "Orange Fingers" technique - he only let his balls out one by one, flustering the "Barbary Avalanche" technique favored by the Togoans - proved too much for Oliseh and once again the U.S. was the best at something that nobody really cares about.
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