Yes, they spelled his name wrong in the headline.
This is an awesome story. The documentary, "searching.. or waiting" for Bobby Fisher is awesome [edit: this was a hollywood film, I have not seen it. I saw a documentary. It was awesome. I can't find the title. any help would be awesome END EDIT]. I watched it years ago and can't recall the title. It was a film that my wife wasn't interested in seeing but I talked her in to it. She loved it too. It's a crazy life story. Edit: I think this is it:
Amazing. After such a beginning, one might expect the rest of the story to be anticlimactic. It wasn't. The opening was a placid Nimzo-Indian Defence, and after 17...Ba4 the game was even... It appeared to be a dead-drawn ending... Remarkably, Fischer blundered with 29...Bxh2?, a move that few players above master level would have played... the position became hopeless after he made at least one more bad move before the adjournment, which took place after move 40. Fischer could still have drawn the game with the correct 39th or 40th move. He resigned on move 56. Game 2 Fischer forfeits Following his loss Fischer made further demands on the organizers, including that all cameras be removed. When they were not, he refused to appear for game 2, giving a default win to Spassky. His appeal was rejected. Karpov speculates that this forfeited game was actually a masterstroke on Fischer's part, a move designed specifically to upset Spassky's equanimity. Game 3 Spassky 0 Fischer 1 (Modern Benoni) With the score now 2–0 in favor of Spassky, many observers believed that the match was over and Fischer would leave Iceland, and, indeed, Fischer looked to board the next plane out of Iceland, only to be dissuaded by his second, William Lombardy. His decision to stay in the match was attributed by some to another phone call from Kissinger and a deluge of cablegrams to Fischer. Spassky, owing to his sporting spirit and respect and sympathy for Fischer, agreed to play the third game in a small room backstage, out of sight of the spectators. According to Pal Benko and Burt Hochberg, this concession was a psychological mistake by Spassky....And that is the beginning of the story of how Bobby Fischer caught a plane to Reykjavik.
Game 1 Spassky 1 Fischer 0 (Nimzo-Indian)
How incredibly refreshing it was to read a well-researched piece of journalism by someone with a talent for writing. I realize it wasn't recently written, doesn't surprise me. I'd never even heard the name "Bobby Fischer" before today, so that's on me. Shame. Not sure we'd have gotten along though.