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Article: Bobby Fischer's Strange Moves; Bad Boy of Chess Baffles Buenos Aires
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 11, 1996
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Perhaps it's best to begin on the day Juan Morgado's cozy
chess bookshop suddenly got considerably smaller. It was a
Wednesday, around 6 p.m., when a surprisingly portly Bobby Fischer
walked in, accompanied by his very large ego and a laconic Filipino
grandmaster.
A Bolivian chess aficionado browsing the shelves in the narrow
room recovered from shock and moved to get an autograph from
Fischer, whose infrequent sightings still set some people,
especially chess people, aflutter. The Bolivian's fatal error was
opening the encounter by innocently offering up a copy of Tiempo de
Ajedrez, or Chess Times, which Fischer declined to sign because he
said the publication's "informants are my ...
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