Podcast
Behind the Bastards
It was used as a primary source for the podcast, detailing Bobby Fischer's life and career, including his rise to chess dominance and subsequent decline into erratic behavior.
He even maintained his involvement with the game while bathing. The Fishers didn't have a working shower, just a bathtub, and Bobby, like many young children, needed to be urged to take at least a wee...
— Episode: Part One: Bobby Fischer: Chess Nazi
Episode: Part One: Bobby Fischer: Chess Nazi
It was used as a primary source for the podcast, detailing Bobby Fischer's life and career, including his rise to chess dominance and subsequent decline into erratic behavior.
He even maintained his involvement with the game while bathing. The Fishers didn't have a working shower, just a bathtub, and Bobby, like many young children, needed to be urged to take at least a weekly bath.
Regina established a Sunday night ritual of running a bath for him, practically carrying him up to the tub, and once he was settled in the water, she'd lay a door from a discarded cabinet across the tub as a sort of tray and then bring in Bobby's chess set, a container of milk and whatever book he was studying at the time.
Bobby soaked sometimes for hours as he became engrossed in the games of the greats, only emerging from the water prune-like when Regina insisted.
Several hours later, coming home from bowling in the early hours of the morning before returning to the hotel, Bobby sneaked into the playing hall to check out the conditions.
So popular was the show that it crowded out the baseball and tennis coverage normally seen in sports bars in New York, and when the channel was covering the Democratic National Convention in Washington, the stations were flooded with thousands of calls to have them put the chess match back on.
