Bobby Fischer: Black and white magic
He was the chess genius who electrified the planet – until his life unravelled spectacularly. Can a new film explain Bobby Fischer?
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Monday, July 04, 2011
"Bobby Fischer: Black and white magic," in The Guardian.
From The Guardian's Stephen Moss comes this look at "Bobby Fischer Against the World," a new documentary film by Liz Garbus. Be sure to follow the enclosed hyperlink to Moss's account from 2005 of Fischer's arrival in Iceland. As for myself, I haven't played a game of chess since I was a youngster, but there's something highly compelling about the course of human/genius/trainwrecks, although it is likely that in this instance, echoing the Beatles, it is true that "no one was saved."
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