Crazy chess champion treated like criminal
Submitted by R.McElroy on Sat, 2008-01-19 15:45
As you've no doubt heard by now, Bobby Fischer is dead. Other sources have obituaries (here and here, for example), but I would be remiss in my duty not to focus on the ridiculousness of his being on the run from the U.S. government since 1992...for playing chess in Yugoslavia in violation of a U.N. embargo.
He was already on the brink of insanity, so is it any wonder that in his later years he praised the 9/11 attacks?

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Rothbard mentioned this in
Rothbard mentioned this in an issue of the Rothbard-Rockwell Report riddled with the kinds of skeletons that make Micha squeamish. The excerpt:
The brink of insanity?
Fischer held unusual views his entire adult life; why do you say he was on the brink of insanity when he spoke of 9/11?