Garry Kasparov reviews Bobby Fischer biography
Photo: Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer after Spassky won the first game of the 1972 World Chess Championship, held in Reykjavík, Iceland. Fischer went on to win the championship.
Read The Bobby Fischer Defence by Garry Kasparov in NYRB.
When I was a kid the world chess championships were front-page news—they were another front in the Cold War. One thing about the Cold War: intelligence was the weapon everyone feared the most.
Yes, Bobby Fischer lived here. Had a girlfriend. The DNA test came in: the child isn’t his.
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