A long, interesting article in The Atlantic Monthly chronicles the descent of chess champion Bobby Fischer into paranoid anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. Then there's this fascinating passage about the high point of Fischer's career, when he faced Soviet Boris Spassky in Iceland in 1972 for the world championship:

Distressed at their countryman's poor showing, members of the Soviet delegation began to make their own unreasonable demands, hoping to unnerve Fischer. They accused him of using a concealed device to interfere with Spassky's brain waves. The match was halted while police officers searched the playing hall. Fischer's chair was taken apart, light fixtures were dismantled, the entire auditorium was swept for suspicious electronic signals. Nothing was found. (In a subsequent investigation a Soviet chemist waved a plastic bag around the stage and then sealed it for lab analysis. The label affixed to the bag read "Air from stage.")



Fischer wasn't flustered. If anything, his play became stronger. As the week wore on, Spassky began slowly to crack, and on September 1 he resigned.

Fischer is under indictment in the U.S. and now lives in Japan.

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