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Part One: Bobby Fischer: Chess Nazi

Behind the Bastards

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Is the Secretary of State in the President of the United States Getting Involved?

Bobby fissure refused to play chess because there's cameras in the room. The match starts again and boris spasky jumps out of his seat and starts screaming at the organizers that there's a camera again. At this point spasky who by all rights could simply have gone i beat him he refused to play me again i'm going home yeah just like fine i will look like i i will go talk to him we'll play a game. Meanwhile in the u.s. times don't fucking simp for a fascist impossible challenge every case your calls again uh richard nixon richard n Nixon personally invites him to the white house you know that is the least least

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