Bobby Fischer, the Chess master, is commemorated here. In the mind of chess players, Robert James (Bobby) Fischer is the most famous chess player in the history of chess.In the summer of 1972, he won the World Championship in the match called the “Match of all Time” against Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Since 1948, the Soviet grandmasters, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian and Spassky had kept the title of World Champions.
The Bobby Fischer Center in Selfoss is the first chess museum in the Nordic Countries, and when he was stalemated in jail in Japan, 2005, his Icelandic friends helped him.
Congratulations to Monchis for being the first to find!