“I suggest rather than fraudulently misrepresenting me to be a Jew
.. you try to promote your religion on its own merits--if indeed it has any!”

— Bobby Fischer

1980s, 1984 letter to Encyclopedia Judaica
Source: from 2nd paragraph, verified December 2014 article by Saul Jay Singer of JewishPress.com https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/fischer-and-spassky-two-infamous-jewish-anti-semites/2014/12/26/

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

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