Harry Benson CBE and Bobby Fischer Play a Game of Chess, 1972. The picture was taken by Brad Darrach, who at the time was reporting for Playboy on the Match of the Century, and it was one of the highlights of the photo exhibit Harry Benson: Kings & Queens, which went on display at the World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF) in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States from October 5, 2018 to April 14, 2019. Courtesy of Harry Benson/World Chess Hall of Fame.
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Harry Benson, Winner’s Check, 1972. The newly crowned World Chess Champion Robert James “Bobby” Fischer lies exhausted in bed with his fistful of dollars after having made America great again more than a century after Paul Charles Morphy. Chess gave him glory and money, but no happiness, and his last words before dying — many years later in exile — were, “Nothing is as healing as the human touch”. The above picture was part of the photo exhibit Harry Benson: Kings & Queens, which went on display at the World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF) in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States from October 5, 2018 to April 14, 2019. Courtesy of Harry Benson/World Chess Hall of Fame.
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Harry Benson, Stopping to Smell the Roses, 1971. The scene is a garden in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the man who stopped to smell the roses is Robert James “Bobby” Fischer, one of the Chess Kings immortalised by Benson and featured in the photo exhibit Harry Benson: Kings & Queens, which went on display at the World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF) in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States from October 5, 2018 to April 14, 2019. Courtesy of Harry Benson/World Chess Hall of Fame.
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11th World Chess Champion Robert James Fischer sitting with the Black’s Knight in his hand. Photo © Harry Benson.
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“It’s nice to be modest, but it would be stupid if I did not tell the truth. [The greatest] is Fischer”.
Bobby Fischer
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