From Times Online
January 18, 2008

Raymond Keene: Bobby Fischer was ‘pride and sorrow of chess’

Raymond Keene, a grandmaster and chess correspondent for The Times, says Bobby Fischer will be remembered as the enduring hero and villain of the chess world

The greatest?

“At his best he was the greatest the world has ever seen. He was certainly the greatest chess player up to that point in history. He would have dominated chess until Garry Kasparov.”

Tenacious

“He wouldn’t give his opponents any mercy. He would seize on any small opportunity and push and push it until there was nothing left. He wouldn’t just beat his opponents he would crush them.”

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