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Part One: Bobby Fischer: Chess Nazi

Behind the Bastards

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Bobby Fisher and the Game of Chess

Bobby Fisher's chess set is just like covered in crumbs and stains of all the food that he's eating while he's playing chess. Bobby soaked sometimes for hours as becoming grossed in the games of the greats only emerging from the water prune like when Regina insisted ew the milk of it all really is not right I don't like that. The fishers didn't have a working shower just a bathtub and Bobby like many young children needed to be urged to take at least a weekly bathRegina established a Sunday night ritual of running a bath for him practically carrying him up to the tub. She'd lay a door from a discarded cabinet across the tub as a sort

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