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Documentary, Bobby Fischer World Chess Champion, Anything to Win (Biography)
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00:00He would only play to the death.
00:02It wasn't a form of play anymore. It was all about winning.
00:05The Russians are going to really be interested when I get the title.
00:07If you can't have all-out nuclear war, you can have the World Chess Championship.
00:12But at the peak of his fame, he disappeared and self-destructed.
00:17He's shy, suspicious of strangers.
00:21So you don't understand, Harry, these Russians are against me.
00:23He's said to have taken out all his gold teeth because it was a way for the Soviets to send X-ray to attack him.
00:32He resurfaced 20 years later and turned his back on his country.
00:37Well, this is all wonderful news. It's time for the f***ing U.S. to get their heads kicked in.
00:43Now, an American hero lives as a fugitive.
00:46The most famous and the most inexplicable recluse ever. I want to know why.
00:51What drove Bobby Fischer into madness?
00:54He was very close to his mother.
00:56He felt abandoned by his father.
00:58He has a paranoid delusion.
01:01He has psychopathic tendencies.
01:03I'm looking at mentally ill. He's just become rotten.
01:06Basically, people think that there's something wrong with the man.
01:09I don't think there's going to be any reclamation.
01:11This is Bobby Fischer. Anything to win.
01:21The game of chess has been played by kings and presidents, artists and athletes, young and old.
01:36But professional chess never garnered much attention until Bobby Fischer.
01:41Fischer really piqued the national imagination.
01:45He was charismatic, tall, handsome, somewhat mysterious.
01:49He was very interesting. He was offbeat. He was unique.
01:51He was idiosyncratic.
01:53Journalists love people like him. They make headlines.
01:57Chess was not a popular game.
02:01It was not part of American myth.
02:04Overnight, Bobby Fischer put chess on the map of America.
02:14Right on. Thank you.
02:16Okay.
02:16How did a high school dropout become a cultural touchstone,
02:20carrying the weight of a nation?
02:22And what price did he pay to get there?
02:24He said, I want to become world champion. I've achieved it.
02:26Now I don't know what to do.
02:29And I think that is the crux of what happened afterwards.
02:32If you put all your time and all your efforts to become a masterful in a thing like art, like chess, you sacrifice.
02:45And the question is, what is it that you sacrifice?
02:49The next question is, of course, is it worth it?
02:51To understand Bobby Fischer, one must go back to before he was born, to his mother, Regina.
03:07Regina was a brilliant woman.
03:09She studied medicine in the Soviet Union in the 1930s under Stalin.
03:15She spoke seven languages fluently.
03:17By the time she had Bobby, she had studied in about six different universities.
03:24Because she was Jewish, Regina had fled Europe, separating from her husband, German biophysicist Hans Gerhard Fischer.
03:32She raised Bobby and his older sister Joan by herself, at one point living in a shelter for single mothers.
03:38There was a time when she considered putting Bobby up for adoption and, I think, tearfully told the social worker in Chicago that it's not something she wanted to go through with.
03:50When Bobby was five, his mother moved the family into an apartment in Brooklyn.
03:54His sister, Joan, bought a chess set in the candy store above which they lived.
04:06He was pretty soon completely obsessed by it.
04:08So much so that his mother took him to a psychiatrist.
04:13And the psychiatrist said, well, there are more things to worry about than chess.
04:17Relax.
04:18At nine, Bobby played his first organized tournament.
04:22By 11, he was a regular in New York's chess clubs.
04:26Bobby was a chess sponge.
04:28He would walk into a room where there were chess players and he'd sweep around and he'd look for any chess books or magazine and he'd sit down and he'd just swallow them one after another and he'd memorize everything.
04:39He decided when he was eight or nine or something that he wanted to be world champion.
04:44I was getting pretty good when I was about 11.
04:47I started to feel pretty good.
04:48He said he read a thousand chess books and he absorbed the best from every one of them.
04:53I think he had the equivalent of 100 PhDs in chess.
04:58While the rest of us were concentrating on school studies and sports and girls, he memorized everything that was to be known about the theory of the time.
05:07Bobby did what you had to do to become the best player in the world.
05:10Chess is a complex game with a simple objective, to capture the opponent's king.
05:16Moving pieces in concert, players try to outwit and checkmate the opposition.
05:21What chess is really about is, as well as pure calculational power, it's about a form of wisdom.
05:28It's about intuition.
05:29It's about imagining yourself forward.
05:32Bobby just could feel his way forward.
05:34At the age of 13, he played this amazing match against Donald Byrne.
05:44Extraordinary, incredible game for anybody.
05:46And for a 13-year-old, it's virtually unbelievable.
05:49First of all, it was a queen sacrifice.
05:52Queen is the strongest piece on the board.
05:54And if you give it up, you usually lose.
05:56The game is over.
05:57Hans Khmach, who was a leading chess author and analyst of the day, called it the game of the century, and title sticks to this day.
06:07When Bobby was 13 years old in 1956, we were approximately of the same strength.
06:13I was 19, and we played about equally.
06:18A year later, when he was 14, he was clearly better than I or anyone else in the United States.
06:24Age 14, he became U.S. champion.
06:29Age 15, he became the youngest grandmaster in history.
06:32By then, everybody knew we had a genius on our hands.
06:35The amazing Bobby Fischer.
06:37He replayed for the spectators the game in which he won the U.S. national championship.
06:41From the time he was 13 or 14, he was a celebrity.
06:44Here, chess players old and young competed against Bobby Fischer as he played 25 games simultaneously without a loss.
06:51The world approached him on his own terms, in part because he demanded it, in part because he was King Bobby.
06:57Will you tell us how old you are and where you're from?
06:59From 15, I'm from 15.
07:00This young man's name is Bobby Fischer, and listen to this.
07:04Already, he is the United States chess champion.
07:09To his mother, Bobby's gift represented an opportunity.
07:23She really tried to manipulate, in many ways, his career and tried to find ways to promote him.
07:31She called me up one time and said, I want Bobby to go on this certain TV station, and I don't want to tell him because if I tell him, he won't do it, so I want you to tell him.
07:40One of my jobs was to raise funds for players to play overseas, and she was always in my office trying to get this money.
07:48And Bobby was embarrassed by all of this.
07:51Bobby had no relationship with the man listed on his birth certificate as his father, Hans Gerhard Fischer.
07:57Occasionally, I would mention something to Bobby about your father or something, and he would say, I didn't know my father.
08:05You know, he left when I was two.
08:07At least one occasion, he cried when fathers was mentioned at a toast at a banquet.
08:13And I read somewhere else that if you mentioned his father, he wasn't the same for the rest of the day.
08:18What about your father?
08:20No, I don't see him.
08:23Are they living together?
08:24No, her.
08:27Sports writer Dick Schaap covered Bobby regularly and befriended him.
08:36My father, Dick Schaap, knew that Bobby didn't have really a father figure in his life, and I think my father filled that function, taking him to sporting events, trying to socialize him to a certain degree in a world outside of chess.
08:50But Bobby showed little interest in anything outside of the 64 squares.
08:56Although his IQ was estimated at 187, that's high genius level, it didn't translate into school success.
09:06Bobby dropped out of Erasmus High School after the 10th grade.
09:10He had made a decision to become the greatest chess player in the world.
09:14Everything else was a distraction.
09:16Here he was, high school dropout, suddenly thrown in among highly educated people, rich people, sophisticated people.
09:25And he felt himself always at a disadvantage, and that was always a tremendous impact on all of his behavior.
09:32He, from a very early age, could sense that people were attaching their own fortunes to his.
09:43And that's naturally going to produce paranoia, even in someone who is normal, and in someone who is predisposed to paranoia or schizophrenia, it's obviously going to have disastrous effects.
09:56He was not an easy person to be with.
10:00Whatever he wanted to do, he wanted to do it.
10:03He didn't care about you.
10:04He sounded crazier and crazier.
10:06I told him he ought to go see a psychiatrist.
10:09He was in bad shape.
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12:44By his late teens, Bobby Fischer was the top chess player in the United States.
12:55And he was already using tactics of intimidation.
12:59Chess was not for him a form of play as much as it was a sport.
13:02He trained himself to win physically, psychologically, and in terms of his chess knowledge.
13:09He towers over you, flashing blue eyes, looking around.
13:12And then if you'd make some threat, which to him seemed childish, he would kind of like snicker or scoff at that.
13:21Mark Tylenov said that he was Achilles without an Achilles heel.
13:25It was like a wall was advancing on you.
13:29He just felt helpless.
13:36But Bobby's success came at a price.
13:39As his chess skills improved, his social skills deteriorated.
13:44He didn't have many friends.
13:45His life became chess.
13:47Chess became his life.
13:48If you were in conversation with him over dinner, you would glance around to find that he'd taken out his pocket set and was playing.
13:56Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart, you know.
14:00Chess is like my alter ego, you know.
14:02People outside of the world of chess, you would refer to them as wikis or fish.
14:10They didn't have anything to offer.
14:12What has chess done to your social life?
14:14Do you get a chance to go out?
14:15Not too much.
14:16Do you have a girl?
14:17No.
14:19He's a lonely person.
14:22And the chess gives him the companionship that he lacks.
14:26Bobby slept during the day and studied chess and listened to the radio at night.
14:33He found a captivating voice in Herbert Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God.
14:38All of the great cities are going to be leveled and destroyed.
14:43I'm telling you that a time more terrifying than anything that ever happened is soon going to happen in this world.
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15:06It was a fundamentalist sect that also had Saturday as the Sabbath, which was sort of unusual for a Christian sect.
15:15After studying many religions, and I mean many, he felt that we were the closest to the truth at that time.
15:22He was hooked into it.
15:26From 1957 to 1967, he won eight U.S. championships.
15:31With each success, Bobby's ego swelled.
15:35He began to make demands, exerting control.
15:38Boards had to be so, the pieces had to be so, the audience had to be kept back from the game,
15:44the prize money had to be doubled.
15:48Conditions have been like in the dark ages, you know, horrible lighting, chandelier-type lighting,
15:52when obviously if you're going to concentrate for five hours,
15:55you need the most soft, kind of bright-type fluorescent lighting that you get.
16:00He made life hell for tournament organizers.
16:03And a couple of times, this led to showdowns.
16:06And he refused to compromise.
16:08In 1967, despite leading the World Championship Qualifying Tournament,
16:14Fisher walked out midway after a series of arguments with tournament officials.
16:19Bobby had to forfeit, so Bobby left.
16:21He played in one of the great tournaments of his life, and then he drops out.
16:25Because he wasn't getting his request.
16:26Once he realized he was leaving, he sent a message to the U.S. Embassy saying
16:32that he wanted a nice, roomy helicopter to take him to the airport.
16:44All the dignitaries are there.
16:46Everybody's there.
16:47It's all set.
16:48There's only one person missing.
16:50Bobby Fisher.
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19:59The World Chess Championship is a three-year cycle.
20:03The world's top players compete in a series of regional tournaments called the Interzonals
20:08until the field is narrowed to eight.
20:10In the candidates' round, the final eight compete for the right to take on the reigning champ.
20:15When the cycle for the 1972 title rolled around,
20:18Bobby Fischer was at the top of his game.
20:21He easily won the Interzonals, finishing with seven consecutive wins.
20:25Then, he made history.
20:27He has to play a series of candidates' matches, three matches.
20:31The first one, he plays Mark Tymonov, wonderful, brilliant Soviet grandmaster.
20:37He beats him 6-0.
20:38The Soviets can't believe this.
20:40The match was over and Tymonov got up and said,
20:42well, I can always play the piano.
20:45Then he plays Bent Larsson, one of the great chess players as well, Danish grandmaster.
20:50He beat him 6-0.
20:51You know, that's like knocking out Muhammad Ali with one hand tied behind your back.
20:55It can't be done.
20:57Then he plays Tigran Petrosyan, smashes him as well.
21:03The chess world had never seen a series of games quite like this.
21:08Fischer earned the right to challenge the reigning world champ,
21:1235-year-old Russian Boris Spassky.
21:14Spassky was a product of the Soviet chess machine, the Soviet school.
21:22He had training, he had support, he had everything that a chess player dreams of.
21:26The Soviets had dominated the World Chess Championship since World War II.
21:31Chess was how they proved their intellectual superiority over capitalism.
21:35The Soviets have always used chess as propaganda.
21:38Their idea was communism is the best government social system.
21:43It produces the smartest men and women, so naturally, we win the World's Chess Championship.
21:49For years, Bobby had complained that the Soviets had conspired to retain the title.
21:54You sound a little angry when you talk about the Russians and the chess.
21:57That's right, yeah.
21:58Well, they've held my title for about 10 years, that's how I look at it.
22:02This is Bobby, the lone American hero, riding out to confront the massed racks of the great, previously all-conquering chess machine.
22:15The Cold War showdown sparked spectacular international interest.
22:19Iceland earned the right to host by offering a record purse of $125,000.
22:24But Bobby never signed the contract, and at the last moment, had second thoughts.
22:31He wanted more money.
22:32This was a last-minute demand, and nobody in Iceland was going to meet it.
22:37I thought that Bobby Fischer would like to become the World Chess Champion.
22:43And I couldn't believe that he would walk away from it.
22:47This was the highest price money ever.
22:52Thousands of fans and journalists descended upon Reykjavik.
22:56But when the opening ceremonies took place, one man was missing.
22:59There's the world champion himself, Boris Basky.
23:02There's the American ambassador.
23:03There's the president of Iceland.
23:04There's only one empty chair, and it is, of course, the challenger.
23:08Where is the challenger?
23:09The challenger's in New York City, renegotiating the agreement.
23:13If Mr. Fischer has a moral to pass on, it is that the important thing in the game is not in winning,
23:18but in getting the highest percentage of the gate money.
23:22Michael Nicholson, ITN, sitting where Mr. Fischer should have been in Iceland tonight.
23:28How far would Bobby push his demands, and would it cost him his dream?
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26:11The 1972 World Chess Championship began without the challenger.
26:16The championship was in peril.
26:19Then a wealthy British chess fan called Bobby out.
26:22He offers to double the prize money there and then.
26:24And he issues a challenge.
26:26Come on, chicken.
26:27If it's about prize money, come out and play.
26:31Bobby was nearly persuaded.
26:33A phone call from the U.S. government sealed the deal.
26:36Kissinger said to him something like,
26:39Bobby, we want you to go to Iceland to win the Russians, the Soviet Union.
26:45And they told me that he was like a young warrior going to war.
26:57Bobby finally arrived in Reykjavik.
26:59But as usual, the negotiations had only just begun.
27:03Bobby goes down to the hall and he doesn't like the chess board.
27:06And he thinks the chairs to the audience are too close.
27:08And he doesn't like the lighting.
27:11There isn't anything that Bobby likes.
27:14And he demands that each and every one of those things is changed.
27:18We have to remove several of the first rows.
27:22Take the audience further back into the hall.
27:25The conditions were met and on July 11th, 1972, the match began.
27:32Game 1's an amazing game.
27:34Bobby plays a move that club players know not to play.
27:40He takes a pawn with his bishop.
27:44A rook pawn allows his bishop to be trapped.
27:47The mistake cost Bobby the first game.
27:52Well, I think he burned it, you know.
27:53I think that's pretty clear, you know.
27:55I think he was disturbed by some TV towers, you know, who were hanging over him there, you know.
28:00There was a man by the name of Chester Fox who had the camera rights.
28:03He said he had to wrap the cameras in burlap.
28:05Fisher said he could hear the cameras even.
28:08He even said he heard the cameras when they weren't even turned on.
28:11Mr. Fox, yes.
28:11If it's not the noise that's fucking Mr. Fisher, what could it then be?
28:15I don't think anybody can tell you other than Bobby Fisher.
28:17And maybe he can't tell you.
28:19Bobby insisted that the cameras be removed.
28:22The Icelanders refused.
28:24Game 2 also went to Spassky by forfeit.
28:27He didn't show up for the second game and lost it too.
28:30The championship is a best of 24 with both players earning a half point for a draw.
28:36The first to 12 and a half points is the victor.
28:41Tremendous disadvantage to be behind 2 to nothing at the start of a match.
28:45That's 5 to nothing in the last inning.
28:48It's a very, very big hole.
28:50But Bobby was unwavering and he refused to continue unless the cameras were removed.
28:55Then we decided away with the cameras.
28:58We are not jeopardizing the mutts for the cameras.
29:02They ended up moving Game 3 into a tiny little room at the back, which is normally used for table tennis.
29:09And it was possibly Boris Spassky's big mistake.
29:13The Russians understood.
29:14They warned Spassky.
29:15They said, don't give in to him.
29:16Don't let him take control with his demands.
29:19Don't let it become his match, his tournament.
29:22Mr. Spassky, are you happy with the arrangements for today's game?
29:25He didn't need to agree to it.
29:28He could have stuck to his guns and Fischer would have forfeited the world championship and Spassky would have remained world champion.
29:36Instead, Bobby sees the momentum winning Game 3.
29:40That was a tremendous moment because it was the first time in his life Fischer had beaten Spassky.
29:51And it also indicated to us that Spassky wasn't quite on his game.
29:58He may have been rattled by all the shenanigans that had already happened.
30:03I don't think Fischer deliberately played psychological games, but the effect of his demands was to psychologically destroy his opponents.
30:16He won six and a half out of his next eight games, which it just doesn't make any sense against a player of Spassky's calibre.
30:25The Soviets even begin to wonder whether CIA are poisoning Spassky.
30:33They check the chairs, they take the lights apart, all they can find are two dead flies.
30:38A sample of his orange juice is flown to a KGB laboratory in Moscow for testing.
30:44They were measuring all kinds of beams and rays that could get into there.
30:50It can't be the case that Spassky is just crumbling like this in the face of Fischer's psychological onslaught.
30:57No evidence was discovered and the match continued.
31:02I think the second half of this match, there was much more of a fight somehow, you know.
31:07Because Spassky had, you know, he had regained his composure, he had also regained his self-confidence, you know.
31:14But game 11 would be Spassky's last victory.
31:19After seven consecutive draws, Bobby was on the verge of winning the title.
31:25Midway through the 21st game, Spassky conceded.
31:29The world championship belonged to Fischer.
31:32What does it feel like after 20 years to suddenly become the world champion?
31:38It feels pretty good.
31:39I can't say I was actually crying, but I was misting up.
31:44I felt extremely proud that Bobby finally made it and he was an American and he had defeated the Soviets.
31:55Coming from behind against great odds, against the Soviet machine.
32:04It was a wonderful moment.
32:05It was a wonderful moment.
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35:22After resting the 1972 World Chess Championship from Russian Boris Spassky,
35:32Bobby Fischer returned to America to a hero's welcome.
35:38I hope to see more and more Americans playing chess.
35:42Chess is a great game.
35:44A game and a sport for the mind.
35:50The world is Fischer's oyster now.
35:52He is set to become a multimillionaire.
35:56This symbolically says the king is dead.
35:59Not yet he isn't.
36:00He's offered lucrative sponsorship deals.
36:05He's offered huge prize money to appear in tournaments.
36:08Doesn't happen.
36:09He doesn't make a cent.
36:15Bobby turned down nearly every single offer.
36:19He won't sign his autograph, let's say, for $100.
36:22If you get a dollar and he gets 99,
36:24he feels that he's entitled to get it all.
36:26Instead, Bobby retreated to Pasadena, California,
36:32headquarters of Herbert Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God.
36:36Bobby had earned $200,000 for his victory in Iceland.
36:40He gave 20% to the church.
36:42In exchange, the church rented him an apartment
36:45and granted him use of its massive campus.
36:47You need a place to stay.
36:51You need friends like myself,
36:52which I basically introduced him to a number of people
36:55that did different things for him.
36:57He had access to a car 24-7.
37:00Over the next three years,
37:02Bobby made few public appearances.
37:04In 1975,
37:06he was scheduled to defend his world title.
37:09Fischer makes 179 demands
37:13before he agrees to play Anatoly Karpov.
37:18The authorities concede 177 of them.
37:21Fischer sticks to his guns
37:23and they make one more concession.
37:26It turns out there's only one final sticking point
37:28which they can't agree to.
37:31Bobby demanded a change in the scoring,
37:34withdraws not counting,
37:36and the champion needing to win nine games,
37:38and the challenger tend to take home the title.
37:41The proposal was rejected.
37:44Fischer won't compromise
37:45and so forfeits the World Chess Championship.
37:51He could have gone on playing and winning
37:54and playing more of these beautiful games.
37:57God knows how long he could have been World Champion.
38:01There was huge offers for Fischer
38:04to reappear in the chess world.
38:08It's really hard to understand
38:10why he didn't grab some of that money.
38:14I mean, it's unfathomable.
38:16He had this sense almost of divinity
38:17and that no one could tell him what to do.
38:21And if he wanted $500,000 to play in a match
38:25or a million or $2 million,
38:27that's what he wanted.
38:28And if you weren't willing to pay the piper,
38:30he wasn't going to play.
38:33He could have lived any fantasy that a man ever had.
38:40In the late 70s,
38:41the worldwide Church of God
38:43was splintered by leadership scandals.
38:45Over time, the church became aligned
38:47with more traditional Christian doctrines.
38:49But Bobby was long gone.
38:56Bobby stopped being involved with people
38:58that were reaching out and saying,
39:00I want to help you.
39:01Stopped taking care of himself.
39:03You know, added weight.
39:04Essentially,
39:06he began the process of isolating himself
39:09and retreating into his own world
39:11and his own mind
39:12and whatever was going on inside of that.
39:14One of his opponents said
39:18that he wandered around
39:20with a suitcase full of Chinese pills
39:22because they were going to be antidotes
39:24for any poisoning attempt
39:26that the Soviets made on him.
39:29His paranoia,
39:31the fear that everybody was after him.
39:33Aye, aye, aye.
39:34And then there's a famous,
39:37surreal incident in 1981
39:40where he is picked up
39:42and mistaken for a bank robber
39:45and writes a pamphlet,
39:47I was tortured in a Pasadena jailhouse.
39:50And it contains various bizarre allegations.
39:54He signed it, of course,
39:56Robert J. Fisher,
39:57world chess champion.
40:00After, of course,
40:01the title had passed on.
40:03The title he felt he had always had,
40:07he never relinquished in his mind.
40:09As Bobby disappeared into seclusion,
40:14his whereabouts
40:15and his actions
40:16became a mystery.
40:18There were always rumors
40:20of him going to bookstores
40:22in Los Angeles
40:23looking for neo-Nazi books,
40:25breaking off relationships
40:27with people
40:28because they were Jewish.
40:30Year after year,
40:31Bobby rejected offers
40:33to return to the chess world.
40:35Then,
40:35a teenage girl
40:36changed the course of history.
40:38A wonderful young woman
40:40from Hungary
40:41wrote in this terrific letter,
40:44beautiful writing,
40:4516 years old.
40:47And she said,
40:48what are you doing
40:49not playing chess?
40:50You're the Mozart of the era.
40:52You're the Einstein.
40:53You're the greatest champion
40:54that has ever lived.
40:55Why are you not playing anymore?
40:57The girl,
40:58Zita Roshanyi,
40:59became Bobby's pen pal
41:00when a Yugoslavian sponsor
41:02put up a $5 million purse
41:04to lure Bobby out of retirement.
41:06Zita convinced him to accept.
41:09But not everyone
41:10liked what they saw.
41:13He really looked
41:14angry at the world
41:15all the time.
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44:31against Boris Spassky.
44:3220 years after they'd competed
44:34for the world championship.
44:37The event was beset
44:38by controversy.
44:39This was the height
44:40of the Yugoslav civil war
44:41and there were
44:42United Nations sanctions
44:44which prohibited
44:45commercial relations
44:47with Yugoslavia.
44:49The United States
44:50Treasury Department
44:50wrote to Bobby Fischer
44:52to warn him about this.
44:54Should Bobby choose
44:55to play the match
44:56and accept his winnings,
44:57the penalty would be
44:58a $250,000 fine
45:00and 10 years in prison.
45:02So this is my reply
45:04to their order
45:05not to defend
45:05my title here.
45:07That's my answer.
45:09Yeah,
45:09we'll be realist.
45:10Bobby ignored the warning
45:12and defeated Spassky again.
45:14He took the money,
45:15more than $3 million,
45:17and ran.
45:18The warrant was issued
45:19against him
45:20which is still in force
45:22and at that point
45:24his wanderings
45:25outside the United States
45:27began.
45:28Bobby went to Hungary
45:29with Zita
45:30after the championship.
45:32He was in love with her.
45:33He wanted very much
45:34to make it.
45:35She took off
45:37with another guy.
45:38Painful.
45:39This was my possibility
45:40that this is only true love.
45:43Over the next 12 years,
45:46Bobby bounced around
45:47Europe and Asia.
45:48Stuck overseas,
45:50he missed the 1997 funeral
45:52of his mother,
45:53Regina.
45:53The early 1990s,
45:55according to
45:55one just grandmaster
45:57who knows them both,
45:58they were talking
45:58almost every day.
46:01Ultimately,
46:01he was very close
46:02to his mother
46:03and it must have been
46:04a great tragedy for him
46:05that he couldn't spend
46:07those last years
46:08with her,
46:08that he was a fugitive.
46:09He first now comes
46:12back into the public
46:13imagination
46:14with these wild
46:16anti-American,
46:17anti-Semitic rants
46:18that he gives
46:20on Philippine radio.
46:23Well, this is all
46:24wonderful news.
46:25It's time for the
46:25f***ing U.S.
46:26to get their heads
46:27kicked in.
46:28It's time to finish off
46:29the U.S. once and for all.
46:31They say death
46:32to President Bush,
46:33I say death
46:33to the United States.
46:35F*** the United States.
46:36F*** the Jews.
46:37The Jews are a criminal people.
46:38They mutilate their children.
46:40They're murderous,
46:41criminal,
46:41steaming,
46:42lying bastards.
46:44They made up the Holocaust
46:45as a word of truth to them.
46:47He was increasingly
46:48obsessed with
46:49these anti-Semitic issues.
46:51He wasn't playing chess anymore.
46:53So this was taking up
46:54more and more space.
46:55He said things like
46:56all the Jews in America
46:57should be rounded up.
46:58I mean, it's horrendous.
47:00Call us down
47:00all the synagogues,
47:01arrest all the Jews,
47:03execute hundreds of thousands
47:05of Jewish ringleaders.
47:07Despite having
47:08a Jewish mother,
47:09Bobby has never
47:10considered himself Jewish.
47:12His anti-Semitism
47:13was a mindset.
47:15It was a sort of
47:16psychopathic illness
47:18which he couldn't shake off.
47:20Probably some hidden
47:23or not so hidden
47:24antagonism toward his mom,
47:27perhaps to his absent father.
47:31In 2002,
47:32a stunning secret
47:33about Bobby's paternity
47:35was discovered.
47:36There wasn't a whole lot
47:38known about Gerhard Fischer.
47:40And when we started
47:41digging into it,
47:42we discovered that,
47:43in fact,
47:44Gerhard Fischer
47:45had never actually
47:46really been part
47:47of Bobby's life.
47:48That he never
47:49actually ever
47:50entered the United States.
47:52All evidence points
47:53to the father
47:54being Paul Nemenyi,
47:55who was a Hungarian
47:56physicist who
47:57died in the
47:59early 1950s.
48:00It wasn't clear
48:01whether they ever
48:02actually told Bobby
48:03that Paul was
48:04his real father.
48:05Beyond the physical
48:06resemblance,
48:07Bobby and Paul Nemenyi
48:09seemed to share
48:10certain personality traits.
48:12Nemenyi was a very
48:13interesting character.
48:14According to one
48:15former co-worker
48:16who we interviewed,
48:17he had a habit
48:18of carrying soap
48:19around in his pockets
48:20at all times
48:21so that he could
48:22wash his hands
48:22after he touched
48:23door handles.
48:24He was an animal
48:25rights activist.
48:26He did not believe
48:26in wearing wool.
48:27He would occasionally
48:28walk around
48:29with his pajamas
48:30sticking out
48:30from underneath
48:31his clothing.
48:33Bobby appears
48:34to have inherited
48:35more than just
48:36his father's
48:37eccentricities.
48:39Nemenyi had this,
48:40as I read,
48:41he had this
48:41phenomenal
48:42spatial ability.
48:44He apparently
48:47thought and looked
48:48at issues in ways
48:48that no one else
48:49did.
48:49It was unique.
48:50In chess,
48:50you have to visualize
48:51how a board
48:53with 64 black
48:54and white squares
48:55that's filled
48:56with maybe
48:57two dozen pieces
48:58how it might look
49:00ten moves
49:01down the line.
49:02That's all about
49:03spatial relations.
49:05It really seems
49:06like there are
49:06a lot of parallels
49:07in the way
49:08that they thought.
49:09There remains
49:10one final twist
49:11to the revelation
49:12of Bobby's
49:12biological father.
49:14Paul Nemenyi
49:15was Jewish
49:16and so Bobby Fisher,
49:18arguably the world's
49:19most vocal
49:20anti-Semite,
49:21is the product
49:21of not one
49:22but two
49:23Jewish parents.
49:24Paul Nemenyi's
49:26life and career
49:27were ruined
49:28by the Nazis.
49:30He was fired
49:31from his university
49:32teaching job
49:33in Germany
49:34because he was
49:35Jewish
49:35and to have
49:37a son then
49:38who has somehow
49:39grasped on
49:41to anti-Semitism
49:42as a cause
49:43is incredibly
49:45ironic.
49:45They're absolute
49:46criminals,
49:47the Jews,
49:48the Jews are behind
49:48this,
49:49it's a filthy
49:49Jew country.
49:51The explanation
49:52then of Bobby's
49:53resentment
49:54remains open
49:55for debate.
49:57I think my father
49:58at the end
50:00of the day
50:00he viewed Bobby
50:02as a guy
50:04who had
50:05unfortunately
50:05lost his mind.
50:07A lot of people
50:07think he's mentally
50:08ill.
50:09I don't think
50:09he's mentally ill.
50:10He's just become
50:11mean.
50:12He's become
50:12rotten
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53:36In July of 2004,
53:39after traveling freely
53:40for 12 years,
53:42Bobby Fisher was arrested
53:43in Tokyo
53:44for having an invalid passport.
53:46Unbeknownst to Bobby,
53:47the U.S. had revoked
53:49his passport
53:49one year earlier.
53:51This was many years
53:52after his crime
53:54of playing the 1992 match.
53:57Why had it taken them
53:58for so long?
53:59One can only assume
54:00it was because
54:01he'd started making
54:02these anti-American comments.
54:05The United States
54:06is controlled by the Jew.
54:07It is a filthy,
54:08dirty, rotten country
54:10in every way.
54:11And it's always been
54:12a filthy, dirty,
54:13rotten country.
54:13Bobby Fisher, I think,
54:15was being pursued
54:17because of what he said,
54:19which, you know,
54:20should be anathema
54:21to our American ideals
54:24of free speech.
54:26Month after month,
54:28Bobby sat in a Japanese
54:29detention center.
54:31Lawyers fought
54:31to get him free.
54:36Salvation would come
54:37from an unlikely source.
54:40The Icelandic chess authorities
54:43who were very fond of Bobby,
54:46and they had never forgotten
54:47the debt they owed to him
54:49for putting Reykjavik
54:50on the back.
54:51Bobby Fisher is a part
54:52of the Icelandic history law.
54:54He became the world
54:56just champion here.
54:58This little group
55:00was formed,
55:01kind of activist.
55:02Free Bobby Fisher group.
55:05Bobby became aware
55:06of our efforts.
55:08So he wrote a letter
55:10to the foreign minister
55:11asking to become
55:12an Icelandic citizen.
55:14And it was passed
55:17with a great maturity.
55:21After nine months
55:22in captivity,
55:24Bobby was released
55:25to the Icelandic officials.
55:27He traveled 5,500 miles
55:29to his new home.
55:32When you saw him
55:33arriving at the airport
55:34in Iceland,
55:34he looked like
55:35he had gone to Holland
55:36come back.
55:37He had been at the edge
55:37of the abyss.
55:38He was grim, forlorn.
55:40He looked broken.
55:46Just days after arriving,
55:49Bobby held a press conference.
55:51Sorry for keeping waiting.
55:53There was nothing
55:54but a kidnapping.
55:56The Jews told Bush
55:58to do this.
56:00Then Bush told
56:00Koizumi to do it.
56:02Then the U.S. government
56:04and the Japanese government
56:06sat down and decided
56:07Fisher must go to prison.
56:09He must be punished.
56:11He must be destroyed.
56:13How do you see things
56:14playing out here?
56:15Are you going to spend
56:16your time here?
56:17Are you going to travel?
56:19What is your name?
56:20Jeremy.
56:20Jeremy what?
56:21Shaq.
56:22Your father was Dick Shaq?
56:23He said,
56:24almost instantly,
56:25your father,
56:26he was a Jew, right?
56:27His father,
56:29many, many years ago,
56:30befriended me.
56:31Acted kind of like
56:32a father figure.
56:34And then later,
56:36like a typical Jewish snake,
56:38he wrapped me very hard.
56:40He said,
56:40I don't have a sane bone
56:42in my body.
56:43I didn't forget that.
56:44Honestly,
56:45I don't know that you've done
56:46much here today,
56:47really,
56:48to disprove anything
56:49he said.
56:49People here are not happy,
57:05you know,
57:06about,
57:06but why are we
57:07inviting this,
57:08you know,
57:09raging anti-Semite
57:10to come to our country?
57:13But since his arrival,
57:14Bobby has kept
57:15a low profile,
57:17doing his best
57:17to blend in
57:18to the Icelandic landscape.
57:20He's very quiet,
57:21you know,
57:22he's content with himself.
57:24He has not made
57:24any problems
57:25at all here in Iceland,
57:26you know.
57:27People are leaving him
57:28alone, really.
57:29And the meteor
57:29is leaving him alone
57:30and think that's great.
57:31I think that's the way
57:32it should be.
57:35Since childhood,
57:36Bobby Fischer
57:37has always preferred
57:38to be alone.
57:40Wasn't it Hamlet
57:41that said,
57:42I could be bound
57:44in a nutshell
57:45and count myself
57:48the king
57:48of infinite space?
57:51And that's what
57:52he has done.
57:53He has been
57:54bound in a nutshell
57:55for decades.
57:59But all the time
58:00he has counted
58:00himself a king
58:02of infinite space.
58:03And so,
58:13Bobby Fischer,
58:14conquering American hero,
58:16lives in exile
58:17in a modest apartment
58:19on a remote island
58:20just below
58:21the Arctic Circle,
58:23alone.
58:24When I think about him,
58:28I feel very sad indeed.
58:30Look what he did
58:31to himself.
58:33Every game
58:33that wasn't played
58:34is a tremendous loss
58:35in the sense
58:35because
58:36it was wonderful
58:39to watch him play.
58:40The worst thing
58:52in the world,
58:54the waste
58:56of human potential.
59:01For him,
59:03for all society.
59:04They have a way
59:22with words.
59:23A way with facts.
59:24To be fair,
59:26a way with facts.
59:28To be safe,
59:29to be fair,
59:29to be fair,
59:30to be fair.
59:31To be fair,
59:32to be fair,
59:33to be fair.
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