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Part One: Bobby Fischer: Chess Nazi

Behind the Bastards

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The Game of the Century

At age 13 he wins the us junior chess championship which is like nuts and okay unfortunately i do have to talk about one game of chess because they're bobbie fissure plays. He realizes that americans aren't very good at chess and so he learns russian in order to read russian chess books  and he just keeps doing this his entire life. "I feel like it could beat the shit out of chess people in a fight," says Bobbi Fissure, son of former U.S. Vice President Robert Fissure. 'These guys know a lot of intelligence agencies yeah well that's fair'

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