Bobby Fischer Goes to War, David Edmonds and John Eidinow academia “to find herself”—but what awaits

“to find herself”—but what awaits her there may prove to be her undoing

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Bobby Fischer Goes to War, David Edmonds and John Eidinow academia “to find herself”—but what awaitsIn the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the Cold War at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion, Boris Spassky,and his American challenger, Bobby Fischer, met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown, played against the backdrop of superpower politics, held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, ultimatums, political