(Nick) wrote in message . com...
1) Fischer was a great chess-player; now he has become a retired
chess-player.

Rene Chun wrote the following in The Atlantic Monthly, April 2003
issue:

"By the standard of longevity alone, an argument could be made for
Garry Kasparov's being the greatest chess player ever. But without
Bobby Fischer there would be no million-dollar purses or televised
matches. And victory in the 1972 world-championship match alone earns
Fischer the title "greatest." This is not purely an American bias.
When the international magazine Chess Informant asked its readers to
pick the best chess player of the twentieth century, Robert James
Fischer came out on top. Even Kasparov has called him "the greatest
world champion."

Rene Chun wrote a lot of inaccuracies in "Bobby Fischer's Pathetic
Endgame," December Atlantic. Chun admitted the errors. Read more about
them here, including the above statement in the April 2003 Atlantic:

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/04/letters.htm