I’ve never seen Pawn Sacrifice (I should probably get around to that!), but one book I can recommend for anyone interested in Fischer’s life is Endgame, by Frank Brady. It was written after he died in Iceland, and I didn’t think the book pushed an agenda. Frank Brady himself wasn’t really in Fischer’s small group of trusted friends, but he knew him from their time in the Marshall Chess Club and got interviews from most of Fischer’s closet friends (Spassky, the Polgara, Sverrisson).
Fischer had some pretty crazy views and opinions (he had one of the more revolting responses to 9/11), but I always found it horrendous how his life was ruined by a stupid UN resolution.
>Fischer had some pretty crazy views
“I’m very concerned because I think the Jews want to drive the elephants to extinction because the trunk of an elephant reminds them of an uncircumcised penis. I’m absolutely serious about that... Jews are sick, they’re mental cases.”
— B. Fischer
Yeah. That is pretty crazy.