No one viewed him as an American fighting Soviets, it was more a great man fighting the mighty machine.” “He had a lot of supporters even in the Soviet Union. From an ideological stance it was the fight of an individual against a totalitarian system. “Fischer’s chess was so fresh and so new and we all grew up under the strongest impression of Fischer’s victories. Garry Kasparov, another former world chess champion, hailed Fischer as “the pioneer and the father of professional chess. Fischer, a child prodigy who once said he liked to watch his opponents squirm, had become an Icelandic citizen after he faced jail in the US for playing the Yugoslavia match with Spassky.
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