Fischer was a disgusting pig.  He was really anti-semitic too (even though he was Jewish), which I can't understand.  He brought chess to a whole new level but that guy needed serious help.

Who?  Oh yeah, that paranoid weirdo who did nothing of note since around 1973.  An enemy of America.  Self-hating jew.  And in the grand scheme of things, absolutely unimportant.    I mean, being good at Chess is less important than paying your taxes on time.  It's a testimony to the bankruptcy of the human condition that such inconsequential people get elevated to celebrity status for the most specious of reasons.  Ho-hum.

Awesome chess player but he was a total pain-in-the-butt.

i great chess player but an aweful person. h was an asshole and imglad he said. wheres he buried? i wanna dig him up and shit on his corpse

Was Bobby Fischer the greatest chess player who ever lived? Likely. Was he also a disgusting individual and a morally-bankrupt human being? YES!

World class chess master who almost singlehandedly brought the game to popular attention.

He was also a world-class nutjob, and got nuttier with each passing year.  His "eccentricities" effectively marginalized him.

This guy was some strange dude, but I learnd to play chess from his book , "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess".Not a likable fellow as much as
Ledger, really, he might have been somewhat of a "Nazi", and was controversial, and besides, he became famous for playing a board game?
So can you get famous for playimg Scrabble as well?

Bobby Fischer was a very famous name, but ultimately meant very little to me. I wasn't born yet when Fischer became a household name, so I don't really appreciate the significance of his win over Boris Spassky. I was first made aware of Fischer when the movie came out about his life, but I never saw it or cared to. Certainly a young American defeating a Russian was probably rewarding as hell during the Cold War, but I don't see how it had any significance beyond people's emotions. People praised Fischer for being a genius, but what did he contribute to this world outside of chess? He also appeared to have become a little crazy as time went by. I certainly don't appreciate his anti-Americanism or anti-semitic stances. I also think his hatred of Jews is hilarious considering his mother was Jewish.