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Article: Thanks, Bobby Fischer.(learning Latin language)(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- February 24, 2009
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Byline: Steve Coronella
It's funny how things work sometimes.
For instance, if Bobby Fischer hadn't traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland, to take on Boris Spassky in the world's most celebrated chess match in the summer of 1972, I never would have gotten the opportunity to learn Latin at my junior high school in Medford, Mass.
Sounds like a real non sequitur, I know, but hear me out.
For starters, you don't have to be a chess geek to remember the American grand-master Bobby Fischer.
In his time he elevated the game to unprecedented levels of popularity, thanks to his spectacularly bold play and dazzlingly eccentric behavior. (He ...