A“…According to Bobby, their team has played for draws against each other while going for the kill when pitted against Western grandmasters. At the last two world championships, which are only held every three years, he went on strike.”
Byrne describes one of Fischer's AUTISM SPECTRUM meltdowns…:
“…At the 1968 Chess Olympiad, officials rejected his demands for better playing conditions, and he stormed out. He even announced his retirement ‘to plot my revenge,’ but after leisurely second thought, rejoined active competition in a year and a half, now with a ‘sense of mission’.”
See Robert Fischer on Soviet Grandmaster Draws
Daily News New York, New York Sunday, June 11, 1972 - Page 152
Chess Champs Stalemated? 11 Jun 1972, Sun Daily News (New York, New York) Newspapers.com
