In addition to offering a detailed analysis of his life experiences for the publication Sport Express, the 12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov accommodated notable freelance chess writer Irwin Fisk with an interview which dealt solely with the American grandmaster Bobby Fischer. Fischer is undisputedly, the most famous chess player who has ever lived. He was an artist who selected chess as his medium of expression and promoted the ancient game as an art.
While others were studying Dostoevsky or Shakespeare or attending ballet, Fischer was learning the nuances of the 15th century Ruy Lopez or determining why Steinitz played 12. N-N1 against Anderssen in Vienna, 1866. It has been said that Fischer knew more about chess theory than any other player in history, before chess computers were introduced. He expired in 2007 at age 64, the same number of squares on the chess board that he had so loved.
Following his enormous victory over the Soviet world champion Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, 1972, Fischer was scheduled to oppose Karpov in 1975, as the new challenger. But the match never happened, and naturally, Karpov won the world championship title by default. Fischer had presented FIDE (the world chess federation) with new, radical ideas some of which were
