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Bobby Fischer, seated, ponders his next move as challenger Samuel Rechevsky paces as he waits during U.S. Championship in this 1963 photo in New York. Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, died Thursday Jan. 17, 2008. He was 64. (AP Photo)