Bobby Fischer : An Eccentric Genius
Some say there has never been a chess player as great as Bobby Fischer. A leading Russian opponent described him as “an Achilles without an Achilles heel”. Fischer was not only known for being a chess genius but also for spiraling into insanity. This is the remarkable true story of Bobby Fischer arguably the greatest genius chess has ever seen. Robert James Fischer was born in Chicago on March 9, 1943, and raised in Brooklyn by a single mother from Switzerland born to Jewish parents. They were poor. Regina Fischer didn’t even have the money to patch up Bobby's torn shoes when he was a kid. Regina was divorced from Hans Gerhardt Fischer, a German biophysicist. But Bobby’s actual father was most likely the result of an affair with her friend Paul Nemenyi. A Hungarian-Jewish physicist. When Bobby was six, that's when he discovered the game would change his life.It was his sister Joanne bought him a chess set and taught him to play. He felt chess was ...