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Fischer was granted Icelandic citizenship in 2005, and was from then on a dual citizen of the United States and Iceland.
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Just before Larsen played Fischer in their individual game, Larsen predicted that he would be victorious, only to find o
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This record stood until 1991, when it was broken by Judit Polgár.
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According to Lombardy, Fischer's lack of a sole second proved a main reason for his failure.
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According to Miguel Quinteros, Fischer had the flu at the beginning of the match.
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Perhaps the best-selling book on the match was subtitled The New York Times Report on the Chess Match of the Century.
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Marilyn Young's name was written behind a photograph dated December 14, 2000, sent to her by Fischer.
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Edmonds & Eidinow 2004, p. 27. "she appears to have been religiously unobservant".
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Brady 2011, p. 9 "The family lived in [California, Idaho, Oregon, Illinois, and Arizona] before moving to New York. Regi
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Böhm & Jongkind 2003, pp. 22, 135.
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Parade
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Brady 2011, pp. 10–12.
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Brady 1973, p. 5.
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Brady 2011, p. 12.
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Fischer 1959, p. xi.
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Brady 1973, pp. 5–6.
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Brady 2011, pp. 17–18.
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Brady 2011, p. 18.
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Brady 2011, p. 20.
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Brady 1973, p. 7.
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Brady 2011, pp. 19–21.
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Fischer 1959, p. 2.
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Brady 2011, p. 21.
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Brady 2011, pp. 38–39.
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Brady 2011, p. 51.
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The New York Times
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Collins 1974, p. 47. "'He taught Bobby Fischer to play chess' is the way I am sometimes publicly and privately introduce
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"Collins, for his part, said that he never 'taught' Bobby in the strictest sense" and that Fischer "knew before instruct
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"Fischer was also extremely fortunate in having John W. (Jack) Collins, a chess master, who was a friend, guide, and men
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Brady 1973, pp. 10–11.
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Collins 1974, pp. 34–35.
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Fischer 1959, p. xiii.
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Brady 1973, p. 15.
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Collins 1974, pp. 55–56.
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The New York Times, March 5, 1956, p. 36. Quoted in Brady 2011, p. 49
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Brady 2011, p. 56.
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Brady 2011, p. 65.
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Brady 2011, p. 64.
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Brady 1973, p. 17.
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Brady 2011, p. 67 "To wrest a draw from a former World Champion was neither small cheese nor minor chess, but Bobby was
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Wade & O'Connell 1973, p. 127.
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Wade & O'Connell 1973, p. 130.
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Collins 1974, p. 56.
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Chess Review
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Brady 2011, p. 75 "No one as young as Bobby had won the United States Open before, and no one had ever held the United S
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Wade & O'Connell 1973, pp. 138–140.
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Brady 1973, p. 19.
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Wade & O'Connell 1973, pp. 135–137.
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Arthur Bisguier, in Wade & O'Connell 1973, p. 47.
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Brady 1965, p. 25.
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Ginzburg 1962, p. 51.
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Schonberg 1973, p. 261. "In his junior year Bobby left school for good because 'the stuff they teach you in school I can
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Ginzburg 1962, p. 55.
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Brady 2011, p. 131.
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Bisguier & Soltis 1974, pp. 282–84.
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Hooper & Whyld 1992, pp. 136–137.
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Wade & O'Connell 1973, pp. 51 (1-point margin in 1957/58), 57 (1-point margin in 1958/59), 62 (1-point margin in 1959/60
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Müller 2009, pp. 399–400.
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Wade & O'Connell 1973, pp. 51, 57, 62, 67, 71, 76, 82, 87.
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Leonard Barden "From Portorož to Petrosian", in Wade & O'Connell 1973, p. 345. "The record books showed that the only co
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Fischer 1982, pp. 3–14.
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Fischer 1982, pp. 10–12.
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Fischer 1982, p. 14.
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Bobby Fischer's pathetic endgame
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Edmonds & Eidinow 2004, p. 302.
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Brady 2011, p. 224.
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Sports Illustrated
https://www.si.com/vault/1985/07/29/620937/bobby-fischer -
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Brady 2011, pp. 233–234.
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"1992 Fischer – Spassky Rematch Highlights"
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BBC News
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Soltis 2003, p. 280.
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Müller 2009, p. 382.
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Waitzkin 1993, p. 298.
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Seirawan & Stefanovic 1992, p. 283.
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Seirawan & Stefanovic 1992. The content of the first nine press conferences, in full, at pp. 13, 15–21, 53–57, 86–90, 11
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Seirawan & Stefanovic 1992, p. 291.
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Seirawan & Stefanovic 1992, pp. 85, 96, 303.
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Brady 2011, pp. 243–244.
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The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/02/arts/bobby-fischer-ends-silence-with-rancor.html -
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/16/world/fischer-is-indicted-over-chess-match.html -
"Indictment"
http://en.chessbase.com/portals/4/files/images2/2004/fischer10.pdf -
Brady 2011, p. 255.
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Edward Winter. "Fischer v Gligorić Training Match (1992)", Chess Notes
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The Seattle Times
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Böhm & Jongkind 2003, pp. 65, 106–109.
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Brady 2011, pp. 255–262.
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Sofia Polgar discussing Bobby Fischer
https://web.archive.org/web/20130727061618/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpHyqg-gM-s -
"Peter Leko talks about Bobby Fischer staying at his home"
https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/eX5SioDLPbc -
Philippine Daily Inquirer
https://web.archive.org/web/20080222093201/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20080119-113499/Fischer-has-a-Pinoy-heir-born-in-Baguio----friends -
"Fischer's daughter Jinky files claim to his estate"
https://web.archive.org/web/20131207054215/https://en.chessbase.com/post/fischer-s-daughter-jinky-files-claim-to-his-estate -
Philippine Daily Inquirer
https://web.archive.org/web/20100625170210/http://sports.inquirer.net/inquirersports/inquirersports/view/20080207-117275/Fischers-Filipino-heirs-going-after-estate -
GMANews.tv
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/82348/Bobby-Fischers-Pinay-heir-may-get-settlement -
Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iceland-fischer-idUSTRE67G4TK20100817 -
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/08/18/iceland.bobby.fischer/index.html?hpt=T2 -
The Sunday Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1364118/Bobby-Fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-Trade-Centre-attacks.html -
Harper's Magazine
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New York Daily News
https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/finding-bobby-fischer-baffling-moves-chess-genius-article-1.343679 -
Böhm & Jongkind 2003, p. 122.
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The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/crosswords/chess/19fischer.html -
Fischer's radio broadcasts show that he was "out of his mind ... a victim of his own mental illness". Böhm & Jongkind 20
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"Executive Board Actions (EB 02-40)"
https://web.archive.org/web/20140225230222/http://archive.uschess.org/docs/pdf/15EBactionsvolex02.PDF -
"Unofficial summary of the February, 2007, meeting of the USCF Executive Board"
http://www.uschess.org/docs/gov/reports/2007.02.03-04_EB_Meeting_-_Unofficial_Summary.pdf -
TIME
https://web.archive.org/web/20100708163358/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,686101,00.html -
"Will Fischer be extradited?"
http://en.chessbase.com/post/will-fischer-be-extradited- -
Brady 2011, p. 2 "[Fischer's] worry was that the U.S. government might finally have caught up with him. He'd violated St
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"Fischer er jákvæður og skýr í hugsun"
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Brady 2011, pp. 281–282 "There were problems with the revocation of the passport, however. Fischer never received the no
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Brady 2011, p. 282 "Not knowing that his arrest was imminent, and believing that his passport was legal, on July 13, 200
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Brady 2011, pp. 282, 293 "on July 13, 2004 ... [Fischer] was arrested", "on March 23, 2005, [Fischer] was released from
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Brady 2011, p. 283.
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"Spassky to Bush: Arrest me!"
https://web.archive.org/web/20150928045413/http://en.chessbase.com/post/spaky-to-bush-arrest-me- -
The Sunday Times
https://web.archive.org/web/20081013031848/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article438161.ece -
The Japan Times Online
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/08/17/national/fischers-next-moves-renounce-u-s-citizenship-and-marry-a-japanese/ -
"Fischer renounces US citizenship"
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1852 -
Fox News
https://web.archive.org/web/20080414032720/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,127262,00.html -
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4370119.stm -
AP wire story, March 23, 2005. "[Fischer] was picked up by limousine supplied by the Icelandic embassy, given his new Ic
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The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/world/europe/05chess.html -
Brady 2011, pp. 288–289.
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"Fangavist fáránleikans"
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IEOZ2N4 -
"Bobby Fischer: ich bin ein Icelander!"
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2275 -
Brady 2011, p. 293
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"Fischer 'put Iceland on the map'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4102367.stm -
The New York Times
https://web.archive.org/web/20150529171138/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/sports/out-of-the-shadow-and-into-the-spotlight.html -
PittsburghLIVE
https://web.archive.org/web/20090202092534/http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_332337.html -
"Bobby Fischer gestures is surrounded by members of the press while speaking to the media for the first time since landing in his hew home of Reykjavik Iceland Friday March 25th 2005"
https://web.archive.org/web/20111010084104/http://www.echecs-photos.be/BobbyFischer-photos/slides/2005%20Bobby%20Fischer%20gestures%20is%20surrounded%20by%20members%20of%20the%20press%20while%20speaking%20to%20the%20media%20for%20the%20first%20time%20since%20landing%20in%20his%20hew%20home%20of%20Reykjavik%20Iceland%20Friday%20March%2025%202005.html -
"Bobby Fischer dies in Iceland"
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4392 -
Brady 2011, p. 305.
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Brady 2011, p. 319.
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The Sunday Times
https://archive.today/20080517070929/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3751254.ece -
"Bobby Fischer and the missed combination"
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3546 -
"Bobby Fischer's life for sale – on eBay"
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Fischer on Icelandic Radio April 11, 2006.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3468 -
Böhm & Jongkind 2003, p. 118.
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Interview on Útvarp Saga
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3468 -
"Fischer, outspoken ex-chess champion, dies of kidney failure"
http://www.espn.com/espn/news/story?id=3202460 -
Brady 2011, p. 317.
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Brady 2011, pp. 316–317 "Bobby started to have urinary problems and thought it might simply be caused by an enlarged pro
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Brady 2011, p. 317 "'It's possible that Bobby was just giving up, letting go of his life, beginning a slow form of suici
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The Washington Post
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Brady 2011, p. 318.
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"Bobby Fischer buried in Iceland"
http://en.chessbase.com/post/bobby-fischer-buried-in-iceland -
"4 gera kröfu í dánarbú Fischers"
http://wayback.vefsafn.is/wayback/20080423000000/www.ruv.is/heim/frettir/frett/store64/item202726/ -
New York Post
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The New York Times
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Manila Bulletin
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"Fischer's remains to be exhumed?"
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6227 -
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/world/europe/18briefs-Iceland.html -
CNN
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Iceland Review Online
https://web.archive.org/web/20170625094405/http://icelandreview.com/news/2011/03/03/miyoko-watai-ruled-bobby-fischers-legal-heir -
The New York Times
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Ginzburg 1962, p. 54.
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David DeLucia's Chess Library: A Few Old Friends
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Edmonds & Eidinow 2004, pp. 26–27.
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Edmonds & Eidinow 2004, p. 15.
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Brady 1973, pp. 151–153.
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Chess Life
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Edmonds & Eidinow 2004, pp. 301–302. "Where was Fischer? For several years, he lived in the bosom of the Worldwide Churc
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Life
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Brady 2011, p. 143 "Bobby tried to live and practice his beliefs; he felt truly born again, and he was applying the same
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Brady 2011, p. 212.
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Brady 2011, pp. 315–316.
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Brady 2011, p. 315.
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Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chess-fischer/chess-champion-bobby-fischer-buried-in-iceland-idUSL2112613820080121 -
Catholic News Agency
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/11557/chess-champion-bobby-fisher-requested-catholic-burial-in-iceland -
Ralph Ginzburg's January 1962 interview, Harper's Magazine
https://web.archive.org/web/20181023021334/http://bobbyfischer.net/bobby04.html -
Böhm & Jongkind 2003, pp. 30, 44.
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Böhm & Jongkind 2003, pp. 41, 45, 61, 66, 90, 92, 95, 101, 107, 117–120.
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The Chess Beat
https://web.archive.org/web/20050321201540/http://worldchessnetwork.com/English/chessNews/articles/2-3.php -
Böhm & Jongkind 2003, p. 123.
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Böhm & Jongkind 2003, pp. 41, 65–66, 118–119, 121.
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Bleacher Report
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/666572-the-five-best-reporter-athlete-feuds-of-all-time -
DeLucia 2009, pp. 160–162, 166.
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Chess Note
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DeLucia 2009, pp. 290, 292.
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Edmonds & Eidinow 2004, p. 27.
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Pacific Standard
https://psmag.com/social-justice/a-psychological-autopsy-of-bobby-fischer-25959 -
Bobby Fischer's Conquest of the World's Chess Championship: The Psychology and Tactics of the Title Match, 1973. ISBN 0-
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American Chess Quarterly
https://web.archive.org/web/20110514134737/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/bust.pdf -
Brady 1973, p. 78.
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Bantam Books, May 1972, ISBN 0-553-26315-3.
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Soltis 2003, p. 10. "[Fischer] contributed some ideas, but chiefly his name, to Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess."
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The New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/03/10/bobby-fischer-defense/?pagination=false -
Hooper & Whyld 1992, pp. 138–139.
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Fischer 1982
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Brady 2011, pp. 227–228.
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My 60 Memorable Games
https://archive.org/details/my60memorablegam00fisc -
Plisetsky & Voronkov 2005, p. 251.
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Chessgames.com
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044304 -
Second Piatigorsky Cup
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Plisetsky & Voronkov 2005, pp. 251–262.
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Müller 2009, p. 31.
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Fischer 1969, p. 151.
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Bisguier & Soltis 1974, p. 208.
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Plisetsky & Voronkov 2005, p. 322 (quoting March 20, 1972, letter from Paul Keres to the USSR Chess Federation).
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Batsford Chess Openings 2
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The Chess Advantage in Black and White
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Chessgames.com
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?yearcomp=exactly&year=&playercomp=white&pid=19233&player=&pid2=&player2=&movescomp=exactly&moves=&opening=&eco=C68-69&result= -
Andrew Soltis, in Müller 2009, pp. 29, 32–33.
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L.S. Blackstock, in Wade & O'Connell 1973, p. 36.
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Andrew Soltis, in Müller 2009, p. 25.
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The Nimzo-Indian: 4 e3
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Rubinstein Complex of the Nimzo-Indian Defense
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Play the Nimzo-Indian Defense
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Mastering the Chess Openings, Volume 1
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Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances since Nimzowitsch
https://archive.org/details/secretsmodernche00wats/page/n14 -
Sicilian Love: Lev Polugaevsky Chess Tournament, Buenos Aires 1994
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Andrew Soltis, in Müller 2009, p. 30.
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Chessgames.com
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?yearcomp=exactly&year=&playercomp=black&pid=&player=Fischer&pid2=&player2=&movescomp=exactly&moves=&opening=&eco=B97&result= -
The Sharpest Sicilian: A Black Repertoire with 1.e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6
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Mednis 1997, pp. 56, 146.
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Mednis calls 6.Bc4 against the Najdorf Variation "Fischer's 6 B-QB4". Mednis 1997, pp. 56, 74, 80, 88.
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Chessgames.com
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Fischer 1961, pp. 4–9.
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Play the King's Gambit, Volume 1: King's Gambit Accepted
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The King's Gambit
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Andrew Soltis, in Müller 2009, p. 29.
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Wade & O'Connell 1973, pp. 27, 76–77, 253, 256.
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Bisguier & Soltis 1974, p. 214.
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master
https://archive.org/details/silmanscompletee00silm_087 -
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Hooper & Whyld 1992, p. 422.
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Brady 2011, p. 246.
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Edmonds & Eidinow 2004, p. 307.
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The Observer
https://www.theguardian.com/observer/osm/story/0,,870785,00.html -
Seirawan & Stefanovic 1992, p. 17
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Brady 2011, p. 260.
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Shall We Play Fischerandom Chess?
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Schonberg 1973, p. 270. "William Lombardy characterized Fischer's game as machinelike, with 'terrifically accurate posit
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Edmonds & Eidinow 2004, p. 22. "Referring to the future chess computer, Jim Sherwin [aka: James Sherwin], an American [c
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World Chess Champions
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Edmonds & Eidinow 2004, p. 23.
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Time
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Telegraphindia.com
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Müller 2009, p. 23.
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Chessgames.com
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The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1339982/Bobby-Fischer-takes-on-all-comers-in-cyberspace.html -
"The third coming of Bobby Fischer?"
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"Did R.O. Mitchell meet Bobby Fischer?"
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chess960frc.blogspot.com
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Chicago Sun-Times
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imdb.com
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Brady 2011, p. 267.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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imdb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1407053/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 -
BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14013115 -
The Internet Movie Database
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William Hartston (1986). Chess: The Making of the Musical. Pavilion Books. p. 10. ISBN 1-85145-006-8.
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"Chess Problems (about chess songs of Vladimir Vysotsky)"
http://www.kulichki.com/vv/ovys/articles/0018.html -
"Prefab Sprout – Cue Fanfare"
https://genius.com/Prefab-sprout-cue-fanfare-lyrics -
nbc.com
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Comedy Central
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"Bobby Fischer, the Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion", by Karsten Muller, 2009, Russel Ent
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New York Times, New York, NY, Monday, October 3, 1955 – Page 27.
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John Donaldson, Bobby Fischer and his world, p.86.
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Wade & O'Connell 1973, p. 98
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Wade & O'Connell 1973, p. 122
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Fischer won first game on forfeit.
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Includes one forfeit: 10/12 (9/11 with 11 games played)
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Chess Life, 1963, pp. 196–99.
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includes one game where opponent refused to play and resigned on the first move
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Brady 1973, pp. 191–192.
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Wade & O'Connell 1973, p. 11.
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Müller 2009, p. 400.
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John Donaldson, The World of Bobby Fischer, 2020, p. 129
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Donaldson & Tangborn 1999, pp. 51–52.
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Fischer lost second game on forfeit
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Includes one forfeit : 12½/21
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Only played games counted: 12½/20
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John Donaldson, Bobby Fischer and his World, 2020, p. 556-577.
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Only decisive games counted; percentage = won ÷ (won+lost).
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Includes all games
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John Donaldson, Bobby Fischer and his World, Siles Press, 2020, p. 202.
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Chessgames.com
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Kasparov 2004, p. 213.
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Chess Review, December 1956, p. 374.
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Chessgames.com
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Kasparov 2004, p. 281.
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The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked
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Chessgames.com
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Brady 1973, p. 74.
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Chessgames.com
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Soltis 2003, p. 264. "This is perhaps Fischer's most famous and instructive move and is still being cited today. Annotat
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Kasparov 2004, p. 438.
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Avro Schaaktoernooi 1973
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Chessgames.com
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Soltis 2003, p. 271.
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