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Article: FBI suspected chess prodigy Bobby Fischer, family were Soviet spies.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 16, 2002
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PHILADELPHIA _ He was the ultimate cold warrior, humbling the mighty Soviet chess establishment through his own genius and a pounding ambition to be the best player in the world.
At a time when competition with the Soviets was being measured in moon landings and missile counts, Bobby Fischer proved that the United States could achieve mastery of an intellectual battlefield where knights and kings clashed on a black-and-white board.
But his own government once believed that he and his closest relatives might be Soviet spies.
FBI documents obtained by The Philadelphia Inquirer under the Freedom of Information Act show that intermittently, from the ...