bobby fischer, are you back from the dead? If only ... I wish I could be as brilliant as him.

Meh, Bobby Fischer, may have been a brilliant chess player, but he was otherwise an all around douchebag, who also suffered from serious mental illnesses. That's what happens when you're told by everyone from a young age that you're brilliant and don't have to work or hold a job or socialize like everyone else, and then spend your entire life doing only one thing.

I remember reading about one story where a guy offered to host a young Fischer while he was in town for a chess tournament, but he mentioned that his wife was also in the house and deathly ill with pneumonia or something, and Fischer just replied with something like, "That's ok, I don't mind."