A sombre and incredible account of chess master Bobby Fischer’s funeral near Reykjavik, Iceland, last January. Bleak, yet riveting, reading.
At 8am on Monday 21 January, under cover of darkest night, a hearse slid stealthily out of the snowy streets of Reykjavik, followed by another car. In the hearse was a coffin containing the body of [...]

Chess Champion Bobby Fischer Dies.
Bobby Fischer has died, cause unknown, in Reykjavik, Iceland, his spokesman said today.
Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64.

This brings to mind a song I mentioned a [...]