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n the early 1970s, an unlikely
hero surfaced for bright, athleti-
cally challenged Jewish boys who
couldn't dream of becoming the next
Sandy Koufax or Mark Spitz. His name
was Bobby Fischer, and his game was
chess.
Fischer was already a legend in the
chess world by this point. In 1957 he
had won the U.S. Championship at the
unprecedented age of 14, beginning a
streak of eight titles in nine years. (He
wasn't nine-for-nine only because he
skipped the 1961-62 tournament.)
Far and away the most dominant
player in the free world, Fischer's sole
potential competition lay behind the
Iron Curtain, in the Soviet Union,
where grandmasters were groomed,
trained and feted as national heroes.
In the summer of 1972, with the
whole world watching, Fischer met
Boris Spassky in Iceland for the World
Chess Championship. This pop-culture
milestone is the crux of Liz Garbus'
eminently interesting, sweetly nostalgic
and vaguely disturbing Bobby Fischer
Against the World.
Fischer ultimately comes to haunt
the film as a tragic, unhinged figure.
The epitome of skinny-tie, American-
Jewish intellectual achievement, he
devolved in his later years into a rav-
ing anti-Semite. The mystery of this
behavior endures, for even in death
he frustrates the filmmaker's effort
to penetrate the core of his enigmatic
character.
Bobby Fischer Against the World,
which premiered in January at the
Sundance Film Festival, debuts
Monday, June 6, on HBO.
Fischer was raised in Brooklyn
by a single mother who worked two
jobs. She was no doubt grateful when
her son discovered chess and happily
amused himself for hours every day
reading, studying and playing by him-
self.
That didn't help his social devel-
opment, of course. When Fischer
routinely routed opponents and was
recognized as a prodigy, he inevitably
(albeit politely) conveyed the conde-
scension and impatience of someone

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Bobby Fischer circa 1972

who's used to being the smartest per-
son in every room.
By 1972, with the world champion-
ship looming, Fischer was part diva,
part control freak and part 29-year-old
superstar under a mountain of pres-
sure. Fischer demanded, dodged and
delayed all the way up to and beyond
the opening day of the 24-game match
with Spassky.
The documentary presents the tense
showdown as a bloodless battle for
prestige between the two Cold War
powers. Not mentioned, though, is
that Fischer was viewed as a kind of
proxy by American Jews who had spent
the last several years protesting the
U.S.S.R.'s refusal to let its beleaguered
Jews immigrate to Israel.
Nor does Bobby Fischer Against the
World point out that the deciding game
between Spassky and Fischer coin-
cided with the 1972 Olympic Games
in Munich, where Mark Spitz set seven
world records en route to winning
seven gold medals. In other words, the
chess master was sharing the headlines
with another Jewish sportsman.
Both superstars were relegated to
afterthoughts by the horrific massacre
of Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich
on Sept. 5. You'd think that might be
worth a line or two, especially given its
presumed effect on Fischer's fame and
state of mind, but no.
The rest of Fischer's life comprised
long periods of reclusiveness marked
by bizarre conspiracy theories and
anti-Jewish tirades. He re-emerged
in 1992 for a rematch with Spassky
in Yugoslavia that resulted in a nice
paycheck but less-than-scintillating
chess. It also cost him his American
residency, for he had violated the U.S.
embargo in effect during that country's
civil war and risked arrest if he ever
returned to the U.S.
Eventually, Fischer landed in Iceland,
ironically, by which point he had long
since alienated any remaining Jewish
fans. He died in 2008, indisputably one
of the greatest chess players of all time.
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