Bobby Fischer -- is he a cunt?

actually i always felt sorry for boris spassky, who seemed like this buttoned-down well-meaning but hapless foe who tried REAL HARD to get with the rhythm but ended every episode with paint on his suit, gum in his hair, his eyes and mouth agape and his top lip quivering

(also being called "boris spassky" wz like he was out of a marvel comic or something: the scripted COMEDY RUSSIAN CHESS PLAYER, HAPLESS TYPE)

there was some fun kgb cia stuff that i may be misremembering or making up or may be completely false but i think they were both heavily involved in the matches, neither scheming but each paranoid of the other, chemically analyzing each player's coffee & donuts etc. yeah that's probably not true but it should be.

including a desire to build and live in a house shaped like a rook.

Ha! I've read that one too. I agree with all your comments - great book. Either it's slightly fictionalised or both Bobby and all Icelanders are insane.

bobby fischer is a great man, 1000x jello biafra

anyone who thinks he's an anti-semite should be shuffled into a gas chamber

his boredom with chess is so sensible-- he knows the corrupt russian game inside and out.

his clarity and nondeviation from the truth in his symbol it's beautiful. his conversation is like a chess game.

the guys he's talking to aint charlie rose either

his view of the world is so clear

and so close to the top

they stole his life work seemingly seemingly because he wouldn't put up with any fascist bullshit

Oh fuck, the bastard keeled over.

The musical Chess, with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, tells the story of two chess champions. Although they are known in the musical only as "The American" and "The Russian", their personalities are loosely based on Bobby Fischer and the Soviet (and later Swiss) grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi. (In later versions of the show, "The American" is named "Freddy Trumper".)

Thankfully Sam Sloan makes Bobby Fischer seem less odd/angry.

why? u should be raged. FISCHER/DEAR LEADER '08.

Yo, you may catch me in a pair of Polo Skipperys, matching cap
Razor blades in my gums (BOBBY!)
You may catch me in yellow Havana Joe's goose jumper
And my phaser off stun (BOBBY!)
Y'all might just catch me in the park playin chess, studyin math
Signin 7 and a sun (BOBBY!)
But you won't catch me without the ratchet, in the joint
Smoked out, dead broke or off point (BOBBY!)

In later versions of the show, "The American" is named "Freddy Trumper".