Prayers for Bobby

At the Press Conference subsequent to his dismantling of the great Boris Spassky of Russia in Iceland in 1972 Robert James Fischer proclaimed his intention to on the one hand date some girls and on the other to play more games of chess than any of the champions before him had ever done.He was asked on a talk show how he felt waking up the next day having single-handedly taken down the so-called Iron Curtain - the hegemony that was the Soviet Union and the Communist Eastern Bloc. He volunteered that it felt like something had been taken out of him... His raison d'être. I knew Bobby Fischer between 2007 and 2016 until his passing in reclusion at the age of 74. He was never crazy never Antisemitic never vengeful never immodest.He was the Father I never had - and I love him.