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Enigmatic Grand ChampionBorn to a Jewish family in Chicago but raised in Brooklyn, New York, Fischer was the only American to ever claim the mantle of world chess champion.

Portrait of the Genius as a Young ManBy the age of 13, Fischer's talents were already gaining notice. In a feature story filed in 1956, a journalist wrote, "While his hands may be fidgety, the eighth grader's eyes are riveted on the chessboard before him. His goal is the U.S. National Chess Championships, and he's made an excellent start toward it."

Serial ChallengeIn an event staged to help finance his trip to the U.S. National Open Chess Tournament, the 13-year-old Fischer (right) took on 21 opponents, 20 of them adults, in a YMCA in Jersey City, New Jersey. He won 19 of the games, lost one and tied one.

U.S. Chess ChampionFrom 1957 to 1967, Fischer played in eight national championships and won every one of them. On the occasion of the sixth victory (above) he was presented with a cake in the shape of a chessboard.

Brooklyn BoyIn a 1962 Life profile, photographer Carl Mydans spent a day traveling with Fischer around his native New York.


GamesmanAt Coney Island, Mydans photographed Fischer as he tried his hand at pinball.

Signs of TroubleAfter 1968, Fischer slowed the pace of his competition. He made outlandish demands on tournament directors, complained that opponents were trying to poison his food, or that his hotel rooms were bugged.

Path to the World ChampionshipFischer returned to international attention in 1970, when the world's best players gathered in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in a match billed as 'The USSR vs. The Rest of the World'. Though the Soviets prevailed, Fischer beat Tigran Petrosian (facing Fischer, above center), whom Boris Spassky had dethroned as world champion the year before.

The Match of the CenturyIn 1972, Fischer and Spassky faced in Reykjavik for the World Championship. Staged in the middle of the cold war, when the USSR and the United States were engaged in space and arms races, the contest quickly came to be seen as a symbol of the battle for world supremacy.

EndgameThough Fischer lost the first game and forfeited the second because he refused to play in front of cameras, which, he said, disturbed him, he quickly regrouped and won 7 of the next 19 games, to become the 11th World Chess Champion. His victory made him an instant celebrity, featured on the covers of Life and Sports Illustrated.



RematchAfter winning the title, Fischer lost it by default to Anatoly Karpov, and did not compete again until 1992, when he challenged Spassky to play again. They met in a match held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, despite a United Nations embargo that included sanctions on sporting events.

Pyrrhic VictoryFischer won the match handily, but enraged American authorities, who warned him that playing in Yugoslavia and claiming the prize money was illegal. To make matters worse, Fischer was filmed spitting on the U.S. order forbidding him to play.

More TroubleAfter dropping out of sight for over ten years, Fischer reappeared in Japan in 2005 (above), where he was arrested for using a revoked U.S. passport. Fischer was wanted by the American authorities in connection with the match in Yugoslavia. The matter was resolved when Fischer renounced his U.S. citizenship. Iceland agreed to give him political asylum.

Farewell to a GrandmasterFischer passed away in Reykjavik on January 17. He was 64 years old.

Demi Moore is featured on 3 separate covers of V Magazine for their Spring 2008 issue.
We now have pics of Demi in a simple white shirt blowing bubbles and a sheer white dress for her photospread. Ashton is a lucky guy!
In case you missed it, here are the three separate V Magazine covers and some interview snippets.

Jennifer Aniston films her new movie with on-set squeeze Aaron Eckhart on Thursday in Vancouver, Canada.
Jen and Aaron were reportedly very chummy in between takes. Could this be the new guy for Jen?
The pair is shooting for the film “Traveling” where according to IMDB, the romantic drama is about a widower (Eckhart) whose book about coping with loss turns him into a best-selling self-help guru. On a business trip to Seattle, he falls for a woman (Aniston) who attends one of his seminars, only to learn that he hasn’t yet truly confronted his wife’s passing.
WHAT DO YOU THINK of Jen and Aaron? YAY OR NAY?

RB in her PJs!
Rachel Bilson goes grocery shopping on Friday at Albertson’s in Los Feliz, Calif.
Looks like RB, 26, is an Entenmann’s chocolate donut fan!Peep her donuts!
WHAT ARE THE BEST DONUTS around? Dunkin’ Donuts? Entenmann’s? Krispy Kreme?
15+ pics of Rachel Bilson going to get the donuts…

Rachel Bilson Does Donuts

Ellen Pompeo is sportin’ a new hairdo after stopping by the John Frieda salon in the Meatpacking District on Friday.
Famed celebrity hairstylist Harry Josh worked his magic in the salon, lunched at Pastis with Ellen and then went out shoe shopping together!
Josh recently blogged about Ellen:“Hey everyone, so today I gave Ellen Pompeo a cool new sexy haircut and some sex kitten hilites to go with it! She is very funny and is full of life but of course there was typical madness everywhere after we left the salon with photogs following us around the streets while we went to Pastis for lunch in the meatpacking district in downtown NYC but she paid them no attention to them…she and her husband Chris couldn’t be more down to earth if they tried, they are incredibly generous and kind to everyone around them. She booked me to do her hair for the SAG awards next week in LA, so I am very excited to go out there and showcase her new color and haircut!!! I am so lucky!!! I feel blessed to have the job I have. xxxxoo harry”WHAT DO YOU THINK of Ellen’s new hairdo — YAY or NAY?

Jennifer Love Hewitt kicks back and relaxes during a mani-pedi session on Friday at a local nail spa in Los Angeles, Calif.
Love seems to be getting more attention ever since her bikini pictures surfaced. Peep her at a recent Instyle event.
10+ pictures of J. Love getting her nails did…

Jennifer Love Hewitt Not in a Bikini

Grey’s Anatomy co-stars Ellen Pompeo and Katherine Heigl spend time together off-screen at Pastis restaurant on Friday in New York City.
Ellen and husband Chris Ivery originally was having lunch with her hair colorist Harry Josh. While there, they bumped into Kat and Kat’s mother Nancy.
Ellen and Chris recently attended Night of Diamonds at the Plaza Hotel Grand Ballroom in New York City on Wednesday.