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Part One: Bobby Fischer: Chess Nazi

Behind the Bastards

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Bobby Fischer Is a Nazi but He's Good at Chess

Bobby Fischer is the first grandmaster ever to get into a fist fight with another grandmaster in a chess tournament. He gets an entire front cover piece about how Russians have fixed world chess. Bobby refuses to play any tournaments that the international chess federation puts on because they're just like cheaters and he's already missing this grudge from the Soviets who kicked him out.

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