As originally reported by Vincenzo Martucci for La Gazzetta dello Sport of Saturday, November 24, 2007 11th World Chess Champion Robert James “Bobby” Fischer has been hospitalised at Landspítali in Reykjavík, Iceland for acute kidney failure.
“He’s seriously ill”, Argentine reporter Ezequiel Fernández Moores also wrote in his article “Tras los pasos de Bobby Fischer... y sus fantasmas” for La Nación of November 19, 2007.