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Part Two: Bobby Fischer: Chess Nazi

Behind the Bastards

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What's Happening With Bali Fisher Random Chess?

Bobby: I think what's happening with this whole sort of Bali Fisher, like mentally ill thing is just that he could just be a completely run of the mill Nazi. One of his biggest claims of fame is he invents this game called Fisher Random Chess,. We're like, the fish fisher has this theory that like, like the reason chess sucks is everyone has to learn openings. And suddenly this doesn't work for reasons that are in fact incapable. He also started getting progressively more into like, like he starts reading David L. Hogan, who's one of like the most worlds, but probably most influential Holocaust deniers.

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