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Part One: Bobby Fischer: Chess Nazi

Behind the Bastards

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Bobby Fisher Is Going to Play Our Grand Master's Tournament

Bobby Fisher is the youngest grandmaster in history. He draws like three of the best Soviet players and somehow you know this 15-year-old kid from the U.S qualifies for the champion's tournament to play against them. The US had finally done the thing that it always does what it used to fight communism they had found their own Nazi so okay even at like this age Bobby is very very anti-Semitic um he's better at hiding it than he's going to be later on but he is doing stuff like for example the encyclopedia judica i like put him in on their list of like famous Jewish people because his parents are Jewish  he writes a letter saying he is not

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