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Mia Wong is joined by Robert Evans to talk about the most famous chess player the US has ever produced.
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FOOTNOTES:
https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/pasad.htm
https://everything2.com/title/Bizarre+anti-Semitic+interview+with+Bobby+Fischer
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41887632
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300192582/genocide-on-the-drina-river/
https://www.bbc.com/serbian/lat/srbija-61926384
https://en.chessbase.com/post/listen-to-bobby-fischer
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/creativity-movement-0
https://www.chessmaniac.com/Bobby_Fischer/fischer_interview_12092001.shtml
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/12/bobby-fischer-s-pathetic-endgame/302634/
https://www.jta.org/archive/chess-king-bobby-fischer-erupts-in-spate-of-anti-semitic-remarks
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