Frank Brady - Endgame

28 Fischer began fighting for a draw Chess world championship, 1972; “Spassky’s View,” excerpted from 64 , p. 258.

29 “What will happen to Bobby?” Interview of Lothar Schmid by author, July 15, 1972, Reykjavik, Iceland.

30 “He can’t be subject to the clicks and flashes of those machines [on their tall tripods] above him.” NYT , July 21, 1972, p. 32.

31 “In case of non-appearance of Fischer in third game” Released press statement by Dr. Max Euwe, July 16, 1972.

32 In an editorial entitled “Bobby Fischer’s Tragedy,” the paper wrote NYT , July 15, 1972, p. 22.

33 President Nixon also relayed an invitation to Fischer Interview of Harry Benson by author, August 1972, Reykjavik, Iceland.

34 Spassky, ever a gentleman, was willing NYT , August 16, 1972, p. 26.

35 Schmid recalled later that “for a second, I didn’t know what to do” Chessbase.com, September 28, 2009. Accessed October 15, 2009.

36 Fischer was told that it was just a closed-circuit, noiseless camera CL , November 1972, p. 679.

37 A thirty-five-year-old sociology professor, Shelby Lyman “TV’s Man on the Move,” NYT , August 10, 1972, p. 71.

38 In New York, intense demand quickly made chess sets an out-of-stock item NYT , July 9, 1972, p. 30.

39 “Iceland is a nice place” Interview of Fred Cramer by author, August 1972, Reykjavik, Iceland.

40 Shortly before the concluding week of the match, the Soviet delegation, by way of a long and preposterous statement NYT , August 23, 1972, p. 1.

41 But the secret weapon turned out to be a blob of wood filler NYT , September 5, 1972, p. 41.

42 “Two dead flies!” NYT , August 27, 1972, p. E5.

43 “It started out as a farce by Beckett” Interview of Harry Golombek by author, August 1972, Reykjavik, Iceland.

44 Then suddenly, wearing a maroon corduroy suit that he’d had custom made in Reykjavik, Bobby appeared “A Replay Precedes Fischer Crowning,” NYT , September 3, 1972, p. 19.

45 “We didn’t know if you were going to be the winner!” Interview of Dr. Max Euwe by author, September 3, 1972.

46 Euwe continued to talk and mentioned that the rules would have to be changed Press release copy of speech by Dr. Max Euwe, September 3, 1972, FB.

47 “I should have played here as my sealed move” Overheard at the banquet by nearby spectators.

48 “Fischer is a man of art “Notes on People,” NYT, CL , November 1972, p. 680.

49 The mayor had offered Bobby a ticker-tape parade NYT , September 2, 1972, p. 46.

50 Your convincing victory As reproduced in Larry Evans and Ken Smith, Chess World Championship 1972 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973), p. 261.

51 “the grandest master of them all” New York Daily News , September 23, 1972, p. 18.

52 “I never thought I’d see the day when chess would be all over the front pages here” AP wire story, as appeared in San Francisco Chronicle , September 23, 1972, p. 23.

53 That day, Bobby was not the old curmudgeonly Bobby AP wire story, September 24, 1972.

54 “Fischer has done more, however, than simply win the world title” NYT , September 3, 1972, p. 20.

Chapter 11: The Wilderness Years

1 “I want to meet girls” New York , February 20, 1975, p. 38.

2 So, working with Stanley Rader, the chief counsel for the Worldwide Church NYT , September 23, 1973, pp. 26–34.

3 The words “secluded” and “recluse” NYT , September 3, 1972, p. 46.

4 The Associated Press took the same tack AP wire story, August 22, 1973.

5 As a result of the non-event event, the resulting press coverage was practically nil . Reports from various news services, August 1973.

6 Attractive financial offers kept tumbling Bobby’s way—almost pouring over him NYT , September 11, 1972, p. 28.

7 “I was not yet World Champion but they treated me like a world champion.” Casto Abundo, “A Month in Manila with Bobby Fischer,” March 6, 2008, HTTP://www.FIDE.com, accessed March 10, 2010.

8 by the time Bobby came back from Iceland he’d received offers that could have totaled up to $10 million NYT , September 11, 1972, p. 28.

9 The Church imposed a number of rules that Bobby thought were ridiculous “The W.C.G. Talmud,” in Ambassador Report , www.hwarmstrong.com/AR/Talmud.

10 Bobby was appalled. “What? Don’t you believe in Satan?” New York Daily News , August 28, 1972.

11 “But these new groups are attractive to the apostate merely because they are foreign.” Mamet.

12 “Either God is a masochist and likes to be made a fool of, or else Herbert Armstrong is a false prophet.” “The Painful Truth,” an interview of Bobby Fischer in Ambassador Report , www.hwarmstrong.com/ar/fischer.

13 “It is the bottomless rascality of the goyim people” Protocols of the Elders of Zion; protocol no. 3, para. 16; as quoted in Eisner, p. 78.

14 “I carefully studied the protocols” Letter from Bobby Fischer to Pal Benko, circa 1979.

15 “The book shows” Letter from Bobby Fischer to Jack Collins, June 1976, JWC.

16 At one point Bobby had both Protocols and Nature’s Eternal Religion mailed to Jack and Ethel Collins Letter to Ethel and Jack Collins from Bobby Fischer, February 20, 1979, JWC.

17 Fischer sent the Collinses another hate-filled screed , Secret World Government Letter to Jack Collins from Bobby Fischer, May 14, 1978, JWC.

18 “Then the true believers begin to lose their fear.” “The Painful Truth,” in Ambassador Report , www.hwarmstrong.com/ar/fischer.

19 “I was really shocked when you refused to discuss the matter or do anything.” Letter from Regina Fischer to Bobby Fischer, June 26, 1974.

20 Marshall investigated a possible injunction to stop publication of the work since according to Bobby, Darrach had allegedly violated his contract Summons issued by Bobby Fischer as Plaintiff against Brad Darrach, Time Inc., U.S. Chess Federation, et al., December 22, 1975, JWC.

21 “Steinitz, Tchigorin, Lasker (too), Gunsberg, Zukertort … all played under the ten-win system” CL&R , November 1974; pp. 714-15.

22 “I will punish them and not play” Conversations conveyed to author, circa March 1975.

23 “Your professionalism, competitive spirit, and outstanding skill have thrilled all” CL&R , November 1974, p. 716.

24 “At the moment we are in a complete stalemate” Evening Standard (London), November 11, 1974, p. 6.

25 “FIDE HAS DECIDED AGAINST MY PARTICIPATION” http://www.chessgames.com.

26 The New York Times ran a story by international grandmaster Robert Byrne, NYT , April 13, 1975, p. 119.

27 “Bobby fears the unknown, whatever lies beyond his control” from the film The Auld Enemy—Fischer vs. the Soviets , September 11, 1998.

28 “I had no idea why Fischer refused to defend his title” Moscow News , April 28, 1975, p. 15.

29 “cultural purity” Letter from Bobby Fischer to Ethel Collins, December 21, 1976, JWC.

30 His friends from the Church, Arthur and Claudia Mokarow, owned the house Petra Dautov, Ein Jahr mit dem Schachgenie , Amazon.de, p. 41.