“I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.”

—  Bobby Fischer

Interview by William Lombardy, 1972 http://www.bobby-fischer.net/Bobby_Fischer_Articles7.html
1970s

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American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer 1943–2008

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