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Bobby Fischer: The champion America summoned, and Iceland sheltered

Henry Kissinger once urged Bobby Fischer to face the Soviets. It was a small island, not his homeland, that gave him a resting place. In the second column of The Grandmaster View, India's 93rd Grandmaster Aarav Dengla traces Fischer's journey from Cold War hero to exiled genius. his revolutionary impact on chess, the tragedy of his later years, and why the country that embraced him in death offered the sense of belonging that his own homeland ultimately could not.

2 Aug 2026 12:00 pm