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Bobby Fischer at the 1963-64 U.S. Chess Championship.

 

Fischer went a perfect 11-0 at the U.S. Championship championship. It never happened before, hasn’t happened since and probably won’t ever happen again. In fact, a perfect score had not happened at ANY major chess tournament in more than 40 years, and has only happened once since. See, chess isn’t like that. The best players in the world draw all the time. A draw is a natural state of things when two great players go at it. To give you an example, in the famous Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world championship match of 1972 — which Fischer won — they played 21 matches, and drew 11 of them.

 

Fischer going a perfect 11-0 might be something like a soccer team going through a World Cup without a single loss or draw. In the chess community, at least as I understand it, Fischer’s perfect score is viewed as the pinnacle of his genius. It was later that he turned into a madman.

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http://i.cdn.turner.com/nba/nba/2012/news/features/steve_aschburner/06/11/jordans-sick-game/0611-jordan-pippen-608.jpg

 

DATE: 6/11/1997
ATHLETE: Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls
COMPLEX SAYS: A flu is all the rest of us need to call out sick, but not MJ. Then again, we don't have six rings and our daily 9-to-5 isn't the NBA finals. Prior to Game 6 against the Utah Jazz, Jordan was diagnosed with a stomach virus, but that didn't stop him from dropping 38 points, including a clutch three-pointer to seal a 90-88 victory. To this day we hear rocking J's or any Jordan apparel goes against BYU's honor code.

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