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Article: FBI kept close watch on chess prodigy Bobby Fischer, family.(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 Fischer's own government once believed his mother might be a Soviet spy, and that Moscow might have tried to enlist young Bobby as well.
FBI documents obtained by The Philadelphia Inquirer under the Freedom of ...