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• Robert J. Fischer, 1962 bio + additional games
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• Robert J. Fischer, 1965 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1966 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1967 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1968 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1969 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1970 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1971 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1972 bio + additional games
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• Robert J. Fischer, 1974 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1975 bio + additional games
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• Robert J. Fischer, 1978 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1979 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1980 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1981 bio + additional games
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• Robert J. Fischer, 1987 bio + additional games
• Robert J. Fischer, 1988 bio + additional games
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Offers Pouring In For Bobby Fischer

The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Sunday, August 13, 1972 - Page 70

Offers Pouring In For Bobby Fischer
Reykjavik—Bobby Fischer's New York lawyer flew into Iceland yesterday to discuss a couple of “enormous financial offers” he said he had received for the US chess whiz.
“When you are hot, you're hot and a couple of enormous offers have come in which we'll have to decide on immediately,” said Attorney Paul Marshall as he arrived to confer with Fischer. The US challenger was relaxing on his sabbath after running up a three-point lead over Russian Boris Spassky in their world championship chess match.
Marshall would not disclose the exact nature of the offers but said, “One of them is from the movie world, another from a major television industry. The money is so big that it dwarfs what Bobby will take from winning the world title.”
The total prize money in the current world championship match is $250,000 with the winner getting five-eighths.
With his win in the 13th game Friday, the 29-year-old Fischer took an 8-5 lead, needing only 4.5 more points to lift the title from Spassky.
The 14th game is scheduled for 5 p.m. (1 p.m. EDT) today with Fischer playing white and making the opening move.
Fischer remained secluded throughout the day in his fourth-floor presidential suite observing his sabbath as a member of the Church of God. But before retiring shortly after midnight, Fischer chatted and mixed with friends in the nearby suite rented by Jack Collinge, one of his earliest chess teachers [EDIT: Collins was a mentor, but not a teacher, according to William Lombardy].
U.S. sources said Fischer “joked, demonstrated the game on chess boards and enjoyed himself.”
Marshall said he would not discuss game-by-game television coverage with Fischer.
“That chapter has been closed for good. Bobby desperately wanted this great match to come out to his millions of fans, but twice people lied to him and put in cameras without his approval.”
Only the first and eighth games were televised, and cameras were taken out of the 3000 capacity hall for good after ABC Sports apologized to Fischer for filming without his consent.
US sources said Fischer was not happy with the playing conditions in the hall. But they said German arbiter Lothar Schmid had refused to call another meeting to discuss the matter.
Fischer's aide, Fred Cramer, said, “We are not through yet. There were kids running around in the aisles of the hall during Friday's game, making a lot of noise.”
Fischer wrote an official letter to Schmid Thursday, protesting against the noise. He demanded that children be banned from the ground floor and that seven out of 12 rows of chairs be removed. In his letter Fischer said he could hear “children unwrapping candy, coughing and small pieces of conversation.”
At the other end of town, Spassky went sightseeing yesterday with his wife Larissa.
Mrs. Spassky arrived Friday but was not present at the hall to watch the champion's 69th move blunder and his subsequent resignation six moves later.

Fischer's 43d move clarified
Bobby Fischer's 43d move in the 13th game of the World Chess Championship has caused some confusion. Since the move R-R1 may be made by either black rook the proper notation for this move should be KR-QR1.

Offers Pouring In For Bobby Fischer

'til the world understands why Robert J. Fischer criticised the U.S./British and Russian military industry imperial alliance and their own Israeli Apartheid. Sarah Wilkinson explains:

Bobby Fischer, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech
What a sad story Fischer was,” typed a racist, pro-imperialist colonial troll who supports mega-corporation entities over human rights, police state policies & white supremacy.
To which I replied: “Really? I think he [Bob Fischer] stood up to the broken system of corruption and raised awareness! Whether on the Palestinian/Israel-British-U.S. Imperial Apartheid scam, the Bush wars of ‘7 countries in 5 years,’ illegally, unconstitutionally which constituted mass xenocide or his run in with police brutality in Pasadena, California-- right here in the U.S., police run rampant over the Constitution of the U.S., on oath they swore to uphold, but when Americans don't know the law, and the cops either don't know or worse, “don't care” -- then I think that's pretty darn “sad”. I think Mr. Fischer held out and fought the good fight, steadfast til the day he died, and may he Rest In Peace.
Educate yourself about U.S./State Laws --
https://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit/videos
After which the troll posted a string of profanities, confirming there was never any genuine sentiment of “compassion” for Mr. Fischer, rather an intent to inflict further defamatory remarks.

This ongoing work is a tribute to the life and accomplishments of Robert “Bobby” Fischer who passionately loved and studied chess history. May his life continue to inspire many other future generations of chess enthusiasts and kibitzers, alike.

Robert J. Fischer, Kid Chess Wizard 1956March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008

The photograph of Bobby Fischer (above) from the March 02, 1956 The Tampa Times was discovered by Sharon Mooney (Bobby Fischer Newspaper Archive editor) on February 01, 2018 while gathering research materials for this ongoing newspaper archive project. Along with lost games now being translated into Algebraic notation and extractions from over two centuries of newspapers, it is but one of the many lost treasures to be found in the pages of old newspapers since our social media presence was first established November 11, 2017.

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