The Fischer Effect: How One American Single-Handedly Professionalized Chess
The call came on a hot summer day in 1972, and it wasn’t from just anyone. Henry Kissinger, the United States Secretary of State, had more pressing matters to attend to—Vietnam, détente with China, the ongoing Cold War. Yet there he was, on the phone with a 29-year-old chess player from Brooklyn who was threatening […]
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