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Twenty years after I first saw him, tall and gangling and infinitely appealing, I finally sat down, alone, with Bobby Fischer. I wanted to talk about him. He wanted to talk about Lebanon, and me. The world chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Reykjavik in 1972 was my first big reporting assignment.

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