Wow... The only things I really knew of him is that he was a phenomenon in chess and the rumors that he went coco for cocoa-puffs.
His legacy in Fischer random chess, or Chess 960, still exists. For some reason or another there is a distributed computing client (look at my sig. while it's there) called
Chess960 through Boinc. I do not support it. I am more of the medicine and astronomy BOINC supporter. If you are into chess and computers, something you might like.