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Article: Bobby Fischer's dumbest move. (champion chess player's anti-US and anti-Israel views) (Column)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 19, 1992
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WAS THIS heavy, bearded, balding guy Bobby Fischer? Last time we saw him, twenty years ago, he was a bonily handsome chess prodigy who in Reykjavik in 1972 snatched the world title away from the Soviet world champ, Boris Spassky, as rudely as if Spassky had stolen it from him.
Which, in a way, he had. The Soviets had schemed to save their successive champions from a showdown with the Brooklyn kid, until in 1971 he went through the world's toughest competition like a mad rhino at a garden party, winning 15 games in a row at a level where the players usually read each other's minds and agree to draw. It was astounding. Finally Spassky had to face him.
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