19.1.08

The man with a higher IQ than Einstein

...Fischer was also the (then) highest-rated player in history according to the Elo rating system... Because of his accomplishments up to this point in his life as a pioneer of professional chess, the select list of people who have beaten Bobby Fischer in chess, the fame he brought to himself and the game in the 1970's, and the epoch of IBM Deep Blue in the last 1990's (after which those few who ever had a higher rating than Fischer's peak can now be defeated by a machine), some reference works and some of his biographers rate him as the greatest player that ever lived...

...Fischer was also an expert at solving the fifteen puzzle, which he completed in under 25 seconds multiple times. He was also an expert at playing pinball machines and early video games such as Space Invaders...

R.I.P.

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