CNA: "Chess champion Bobby Fisher requested Catholic burial in Iceland"

CNA reports:

Legendary chess player Bobby Fischer, who made history by dethroning the Soviet chess king Boris Spassky in 1972, asked to be buried as a Catholic, according to officials of the Catholic Church in Iceland, where he had been living since 1992.

The famous and eccentric chess player, who died last Thursday at the age of 64, was buried Tuesday in Iceland during a private Catholic ceremony.

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“I don’t know if he converted to the Catholic faith, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t,” said Father Rolland, in reference to the reserved manner in which Fischer discussed his private life and his personal decisions.

More from Reuters and AP.

I cut my chess teeth on his book, Bobby Fisher Teaches Chess.

God rest his troubled soul.

update: Carl Olson has a very thoughtful piece on Bobby Fisher posted at Insight Scoop.