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psychology of, 9, 12, 13–14, 18, 20–30, 77–80, 184–85

recreations of, 20

religion and, 15, 179, 223, 301–2

“retirements” from competition by, 16, 18, 82

relaxation routines of, 221–22

single-minded chess focus of, 6–21

Soviets’ views of, 21

Spassky similarities with, 32

suspicious of Soviets, 13, 26, 257

U.S. championship, 8, 10, 15–16, 17

women, attitude toward, 25

world championship, 247, 280–85, 287, 295–301

world championship qualifying

matches, 84–89, 92–98

See also Fischer-Spassky competition

Fischer, Gerhardt (father), 4, 306

Fischer, Joan (sister). See Targ, Joan Fischer

Fischer, Regina (mother), 4–8, 10, 12, 26–27, 29

FBI file on, 306, 313–21

Fischer-Spassky competition

background to championship match, 1, 99–121, 123, 124–61, 163–65

championship match, 1–3, 26, 56, 57–58, 66, 162, 165–85, 189–91, 197–210, 211, 216–20, 221, 233–36, 240–47, 254, 260–61, 266, 273–75, 309–11

choice of site, 123–29

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

cultural impact of championship match, 225–32, 307–9

first tournament, 12–13

Fischer’s apology letter and, 160–61

nonchampionship matches, 12–13, 17, 22, 83–84

rematch (1992), 304–5

Spassky’s view of Fischer and, 30, 295

Flea House (N.Y.C.), 7

Flohr, Salo, 90

Forte, Chet, 201

Fox, Chester, 162–63, 167, 169–70, 173, 178, 183, 201, 205, 211, 220–21, 223–24, 283

Freudian psychology, 78–79

Fried Chicken tournament, 299

From Russia with Love (film), 239–40

Frost, David, 128, 148

Furman, Semion, 40, 200

Gagarin, Yuri, 168

game theory, 186–90

Garment, Leonard, 298

Geller, Efim, 13, 28, 44, 46, 62, 86, 87, 105, 106, 113, 116, 118–20, 133, 147, 158, 168, 174, 240, 243, 244, 246, 250, 251, 258, 262, 263, 265, 266, 273, 287, 288, 310

press statement by, 237–39, 240

Geller, Oksana, 250

Germany, 37, 54–55

Gestsson, Gissli, 169–70, 175, 272

Gipslis, Aivar, 18

Glaesibaer (chess club), 196

Glazer, Joe, 229

Gligoric, Svetozar, 86, 141, 192, 205, 221, 228, 243, 244, 307

Golobev, Anatoli, 103

Golombek, Harry, 47, 82, 83, 163, 166, 183–84, 189, 202, 235, 236, 282

Goncharov, Boris, 261, 263

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 58

Gordievsky, Oleg, 249

GosKomSport. See Sports Committee

Gostiev, Viktor, 261, 262

Grand Strategy (van Reek), 38, 40, 47, 60–61, 116

Great Britain, 140, 227–30, 308

Great Soviet Encyclopedia, The, 66–67

Great Terror, 33, 51

Greco, Gioacchino, 197

Gromyko, Andrei, 278

Grossinger’s (resort), 127, 131–32

Grossman, Vasili, 55

Grumette, Lina, 26, 179, 221

Gudbjarnason, Sigmundur, 241–42

Gufeld, Edouard, 53

Haig, Alexander, 298

Haldeman, H. R., 188–89

Hallgrimsson, Geir, 138

Hartston, Bill, 78, 227

Hassan, Lome, 201, 205

Hastings (tournament), 148

Hawthorne Chess Club, 6

Hearst, Eliot, 30

Helms, Hermann, 6

Helms, Richard, 271

Hingley, Ronald, 56–57

Hitler, Adolf, 26, 34, 189, 305

“Holy Fool” figure, 67–68

Hoover, J. Edgar, 306

Hope, Bob, 297, 298

Hort, Vlastimil, 86, 294

Hübner, Robert, 86, 87

Huntington, Samuel P., 277

Iceland, 13, 122–29, 132–33, 138–46, 163, 176, 180, 191–96, 244

Icelandic Chess Federation, 124, 127, 134–35, 162, 170–73, 180, 186, 200–201, 203, 216, 219, 221, 224, 235, 239, 242, 311

Iliin-Zhenevskii, Aleksandr Fiodorvich, 35–36

In Confidence (Dobrynin), 276

International Chess Federation, 37, 300

International Institute for Strategic Studies, 276–77

Interzonals, 9, 10, 19, 43, 82, 85–87

Amsterdam (1964), 16, 45

Palma (1970), 189

Sousse (1967), 17–18, 190

Stockholm (1962), 13

Ivonin, Viktor, 62, 64, 67, 99, 101–3, 105, 107–10, 113, 116–19, 121, 126, 147, 150, 155, 156, 167–68, 177–78, 180, 184, 200, 202, 255, 256, 261–63, 267, 268, 287–92, 294

Ivushkina, Aleksandra, 116

Jackovich, Victor, 156–57, 221–22, 247, 257, 271

Janosevic, Dragoljub, 192

Jews, 15, 27, 37, 170. See also anti-Semitism

Johannesson, Olafur, 124, 138, 141, 143, 146, 154

Johannsson, Freysteinn, 135

Johnson, Lyndon, 11

Jones, Ernest, 78

Josefsson, Gunnlaugur, 221

Kahn, Herman, 188, 190

Kaiser, Robert, 274

Karpov, Anatoli, 99, 107, 113, 166, 184, 197, 259, 292, 299–301, 304

Kashdan, Isaac, 233

Kasparov, Garry, 259, 301, 304, 308, 310

Kavalek, Lubomir, 192

Kazantsev, Comrade, 65–66

Keflavik air base, 142, 257, 305

Keres, Paul, 13, 37, 46, 65, 68, 106, 121, 200, 310

KGB, 61, 63, 64, 65, 106, 113, 253, 254, 255, 257–64, 267

Khrushchev, Nikita, 8, 51, 55–56, 110

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 11

Kissinger, Henry, 189, 230, 270, 276, 278, 296, 298

phone calls to Fischer by, 143–44, 148, 150, 175, 276

Kline, Harold, 6

Kmoch, Hans, 226

Koestler, Arthur, 1, 24, 72, 270

Komsomol, 39, 63, 102

Korbut, Olga, 232, 299

Korchnoi, Viktor, 13, 34, 46, 58, 67, 80, 86, 87, 93, 120, 121, 177, 200, 294–95, 300, 301, 310

Kosygin, Andrei, 51, 109

Kotov, Aleksandr, 33, 88, 91, 104–5, 253

Krogius, Nikolai, 21, 61, 62, 65, 68, 105, 106, 107, 113, 117, 118, 120–21, 133, 147, 174, 202, 217–18, 251, 254, 255, 258, 260, 262–67, 273, 287, 288, 291–92

Krylenko, Nikolai, 36, 58

Kulakov, Fiodor, 52

Kurtis, Donald, 272

Ladbrokes of London, 229

Larsen, Bent, 21, 28, 29, 45, 46, 47, 83, 86, 87, 92–93, 96, 104, 105, 131, 192, 205, 206, 219–20, 253, 310

Lasker, Emanuel, 35, 74, 310

Latyntseva, Nadezhda, 44

Lawson, Dominic, 79

Laxness, Halldor, 142–43

Lenin, V. I., 35, 36, 39, 63, 68

Leningrad, 33–35, 40, 54–55, 58–61, 124, 133

Leone, Sebastian, 295

Levenfish, Grigori, 40

Levy, David, 196, 302, 307

Lindsay, John, 226, 295

Litvinov, Viktor, 259

Lockhart, Bruce, 36

Loftleidir hotel, 153, 175, 198–99, 282

Lombardy, William, 6, 43, 133–34, 156, 160, 167, 171, 175, 209, 220, 222, 223

Lopez, Ruy, 133

Lvov, Comrade, 262

Lyman, Shelby, 226, 227

MacNeice, Louis, 122, 191

madman theory, 188–89

Magnusson, Gunnar, 164

Makarova, Vera, 130

Manhattan Chess Club, 6

Mannusson, Pitur, 194

Marshall, Bette, 150–51, 258

Marshall, Frank, 35

Marshall, Paul, 128, 129, 133–35, 148–51, 154, 157, 158, 160, 161, 163, 171, 175–76, 179–80, 184–85, 216, 257–58, 266, 290, 297, 309

Marshall Club, 7, 227

“Match of the Century,” 2

mathematics, chess and, 74–75

May, Karl, 137

Mecking, Henrique, 86

Mednis, Edmar, 227, 308

Melen’tiev, Stanislav, 206–7, 268

Merridale, Catherine, 51, 54

Metropolitan Museum (N.Y.C.), 228

Moeller, Baldur, 174, 178

Mokarow, Claudia, 302

Morphy, Paul, 77, 78

Morris, Joe Alex, Jr., 193, 194

Moscow Central Chess Club, 9, 259

Moscow Chess (magazine), 114

Motley, Constance Baker, 224

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 73

Munich Olympics (1972), 232

musicians, chess and, 73–74

My 60 Memorable Games (Fischer), 12–13