Bobby Fischer Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Bobby Fischer? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Bobby Fischer from Chess and what is the personality traits.
INTJ (5w6)
Bobby Fischer personality type is INTJ, according to the MBTI. He was the only child of an American father and a Jewish mother. His father was a well-known mathematician who worked in the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. Upon his father’s death, Fischer moved to Jerusalem to live with his mother.
Fischer was a prodigy in chess and chess theory. He was taught chess by his father and in 1955 won the U.S. Junior Chess Championship and in 1957 the U.S. Championship in 1959 and 1961, and in 1960 and 1963 the U.S. Correspondence Chess Championship. He was the youngest player ever to win the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 1959 at age 17 years and 1 month (the record has since been broken). He was the youngest ever to become a grandmaster, earning that title at the age of 20 years and 10 months.
In 1956, Fischer refused to defend his title in Reykjavík, Iceland, because he was suspended from chess for defying the rules of the World Chess Federation (FIDE). He won the title of International Grandmaster of chess in 1958, after his case was decided against him by FIDE.
Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time.
