The Day Bobby Blew It
July, 1973
Bobby Fischer heard a knock at the door. It was sometime after ten a. m., Thursday, June 29, 1972. Three days before the first game of his match with Boris Spassky for the world chess championship. Eleven hours before the plane left for Iceland. Five nights in a row, he had been booked on a northbound plane and five nights in a row he had not shown. Now time was running out. He had to take this flight. He couldn't fly tomorrow night, because the Sabbath began at sundown on Friday and for religio...
