David Edmonds - Bobby Fischer Goes to War

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USSR Council of Ministers Committee for Physical Training and Sport (GosKomSport)—In effect, the Sports Ministry, coming under the jurisdiction of the Council of Ministers. Constitutionally, GosKomSport was part of the government but in practice was answerable to the corresponding Central Committee department. It ran chess through its chess committee, the Central Chess Club, and the USSR Chess Federation. (Referred to here as the Sports Committee.)

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ABC (TV network), 201, 205

Abramov, Lev, 9, 21, 37–38, 52–53, 62, 64, 276

Addison, William, 82

Agnew, Spiro, 230

Agustsson, Dadi, 164

Alekhine, Alexander, 35, 37, 40, 70–71, 73, 244, 310

Alekhine Memorial (tournament), 107

Alexander, C. H. O’D., 166, 209

Ali, Muhammad, 11, 301

All the President’s Men (film), 231

All-Union Chess Section, 36

Andersson, Benny, 308

Andrew, Christopher, 249

Andropov, Yuri, 261

Angola, 293

anti-Semitism, 26–27, 37, 61, 305, 306

Appolonov, General, 292

Arledge, Roone, 205

Armstrong, Herbert, 15

Arnarson, Ingolfur, 122

Arnlaugsson, Gudmundur, 174, 175, 242

Astavin, Sergei, 154, 184, 250, 256, 257

Atom Station, The (Laxness), 142–43

Auden, W. H., 122, 191

Augustin, Dadi, 241, 242

Auto-da-Fé (Canetti), 31–32

Averbakh, Yuri, 7, 19–20, 62, 68, 118, 120, 259, 289

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 59–60

Balashov, Yuri, 88

Baldursson, Curt, 178

Barden, Leonard, 148, 149, 227

Barreras, José Luis, 16

Baturinskii, Viktor, 56, 58, 62, 64–66, 68, 92, 95, 99, 104, 107–10, 114–17, 121, 147, 253, 255, 260, 265, 289–92

BBC, 70, 153–54, 227

Bebchuk, Yevgeni, 57, 67, 118

Beilin, Mikhail, 43, 54, 64, 65, 66, 103, 106, 113, 120, 121

Benko, Pal, 14, 82, 85

Benson, Harry, 246, 285

Bernstein, Carl, 231

Bernstein, Sid, 205

Bezold, Michael, 73, 303–4

Bisguier, Arthur, 13–14

Biyiasas, Peter, 302

Bjelica, Dimitri, 25, 26, 205, 244

Bjornsson, Thorsteinn, 164

Black Power, 11

Black September, 232

Boikov, V. I., 291

Boleslavskii, Isaac, 99, 113, 121, 182

Bolshevik revolution (1917), 35, 61

Bond, James (fictional character), 239

Bondarevskii, Igor, 40, 44–45, 63, 101, 102, 105–7, 114, 116–20, 166, 288–89, 294

Borzov, Valeri, 275

Botvinnik, Mikhail, 24, 40, 46, 64, 80, 107, 114, 121, 184, 225, 253, 287

analysis of Fischer’s play by, 88

Botvinnik, Mikhail

Soviet world chess championship and, 37, 38

Brady, Frank, 20–21, 24, 30, 182, 184

Brandt, Willy, 84

Brezhnev, Leonid, 50, 51–52, 55, 68, 102, 109, 110, 230, 261, 276–79, 292, 293

Bronstein, David, 12, 40, 53, 63, 208, 209, 240, 274

Brooklyn Chess Club, 6

Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoyevsky), 60

Brown, Archie, 50, 52

Browne, Walter, 29

Bruk, Liubov, 87

Bubnov, Viktor, 260

Buchwald, Art, 271

Burke, James, 153, 154, 272

Bykova, Elizaveta, 255

Byrne, Donald, 7, 226

Byrne, Robert, 6, 23, 166, 192, 208, 221, 235, 236, 266–67, 292–93

Camp David (Md.), 55–56

Candidates (tournament), 9, 10, 13–14, 21–23, 29, 42–47, 82, 86–89, 106, 123, 137, 292–95, 300

Canetti, Elias, 31–32

Capablanca, José, 31, 35, 73, 198, 244, 310

Capablanca Memorial (tournament), 16

Castro, Fidel, 16–17

Central Committee. See Communist

Party

Chamanin, Valeri, 158, 272–73

Chebrikov, Viktor, 261

Chen Tung, 282

chess, 24, 70–81

aesthetics of, 74–75

boom interest in, 228–30, 307–9

importance in Soviet Union, 8, 35–38, 52–58, 89–92

player mentality, 77–80

See also World Chess Championship;

specific tournaments

Chess (musical), 308

Chess, Anita, 229

Chess Digest (magazine), 130

Chess Fever (film), 198

Chess Olympiad, 17, 24, 25, 53, 63, 75, 83, 85, 295, 300

“chicken” (suicidal game), 188–90

China, 52, 282

Church, George, 299

CIA, 143, 260

civil rights movement, 11

Clarke, P. H., 89

cold war, 176, 227, 239, 270–80, 308–9

Collins, Jack, 6, 30, 221

Communist Party, Soviet, 50–54, 57, 58, 61–66, 129, 301

chess governance by, 37–38, 50, 52, 57

Spassky—Fischer match problems and, 155, 260–61

Spassky’s defeat and, 287, 290–93

Spassky’s nonmembership in, 61–62

Spassky training plan and, 109–13

youth league, 39, 63, 102

Corn, Ira G., 296

Corriere della Sera, 228

counterculture, 11

Cramer, Fred, 133, 136–37, 141, 146, 159–60, 165, 173–76, 198–200, 203, 205–6, 210–14, 218, 223, 224, 235–37, 241, 243, 251, 281, 282, 300

Cuba, 7, 16–17, 279

“Cue Fanfare” (song), 308–9

Czechoslovakia, 63

Darrach, Brad, 133, 145, 146, 160, 161, 173, 212, 272–73

Davies, Norman, 54–55

Davis, Andrew, 132–36, 138–39, 145–46, 154, 171–74, 179

Davis, Angela, 63–65

Dean, James, 20, 188

de Groot, Adrian, 75–76

Demichev, Piotr, 109, 110, 112, 113, 155, 287

détente, 275–80

Dime Savings Bank, 229

Dobrynin, Anatoli, 55, 143, 175, 276

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 50, 58–60, 61, 295

Duchamp, Marcel, 75

Dymarskii, Naum, 91, 180

Edmondson, Ed, 84–86, 89, 95, 123, 126, 127, 129, 131, 133, 137, 159, 171, 212, 213, 300, 301

Ehrenburg, Ilya, 35

Eldjarn, Kristjan, 138, 193

Ellsberg, Daniel, 189, 230

Elo, Arpad, 212

Erasmus Hall High School, 10, 24

Euwe, Max, 37, 70, 73, 74, 76, 90, 123, 125–29, 138, 139, 146–47, 154, 157, 158–60, 178, 235, 246, 266, 281, 282, 289

Evans, Larry, 89, 132, 192, 205, 225, 236, 296, 297

FBI, 3, 306, 313–21

FIDE (Fédération Internationale des

Échecs), 85, 100, 114, 116, 124–28, 146–47, 154, 155, 158, 178, 186, 190, 212, 274, 300–301

Fields of Force (Steiner), 71

Fine, Reuben, 78–79, 182

Fischer, Bobby, 4–32, 45, 46, 56, 70, 74

anti-Semitism of, 26–27, 305, 306

background and youth of, 4–14

Botvinnik analysis of moves of, 88

Castro answers Fischer’s objections to

match with Cubans, 16

Curaçao, visit to, 13

extra-chess intrigue and, 253, 254–55, 257, 261–64

as ex-world champion, 301–7

fee concerns of, 14–15, 16, 27, 29–30, 85–86, 124–25, 226

Fox’s legal suit against, 223–24

game theory and, 186–90

gentlemanly play by, 30–31

hate mechanism of, 26–27

Icelanders’ view of, 194, 195–96

Iceland viewed by, 122

imprisoned, 303

Internet chess and, 306

Karpov’s challenge and, 300–301

media portrayals of, 30

memory feats of, 25, 75

as “mimophant,” 24

Moscow, visit to, 8

opponents’ responses to, 22–24, 247–48, 254–55

playing conditions demands by, 14–15, 17, 21, 28, 30–31, 87, 95, 163–65, 169, 170–75, 178–81, 183, 186, 189, 197, 198, 200–201, 203–5, 208–9, 235, 236–37, 240, 243, 300