Article: Bobby Fischer's Strange Moves; Bad Boy of Chess Baffles Buenos Aires

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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