Bobby Fischer Goes to War

Bisguier, Arthur, 13–14

Biyiasas, Peter, 302

Bjelica, Dimitri, 25, 26, 205, 244

Bjornsson, Thorsteinn, 164

Black Power, 11

Black September, 232

Boikov, V. I., 291

Boleslavskii, Isaac, 99, 113, 121, 182

Bolshevik revolution (1917), 35, 61

Bond, James (fictional character), 239

Bondarevskii, Igor, 40, 44–45, 63, 101, 102, 105–7, 114, 116–20, 166, 288–89, 294

Borzov, Valeri, 275

Botvinnik, Mikhail, 24, 40, 46, 64, 80, 107, 114, 121, 184, 225, 253, 287

analysis of Fischer’s play by, 88

Botvinnik, Mikhail

Soviet world chess championship and, 37, 38

Brady, Frank, 20–21, 24, 30, 182, 184

Brandt, Willy, 84

Brezhnev, Leonid, 50, 51–52, 55, 68, 102, 109, 110, 230, 261, 276–79, 292, 293

Bronstein, David, 12, 40, 53, 63, 208, 209, 240, 274

Brooklyn Chess Club, 6

Brothers Karamazov, The(Dostoyevsky), 60

Brown, Archie, 50, 52

Browne, Walter, 29

Bruk, Liubov, 87

Bubnov, Viktor, 260

Buchwald, Art, 271

Burke, James, 153, 154, 272

Bykova, Elizaveta, 255

Byrne, Donald, 7, 226

Byrne, Robert, 6, 23, 166, 192, 208, 221, 235, 236, 266–67, 292–93

C

Camp David (Md.), 55–56

Candidates (tournament), 9, 10, 13–14, 21–23, 29, 42–47, 82, 86–89, 106, 123, 137, 292–95, 300

Canetti, Elias, 31–32

Capablanca, Jose, 31, 35, 73, 198, 244, 310

Capablanca Memorial (tournament), 16

Castro, Fidel, 16–17

Central Committee. SeeCommunist

Party

Chamanin, Valeri, 158, 272–73

Chebrikov, Viktor, 261

Chen Tung, 282

chess, 24, 70–81

aesthetics of, 74–75

boom interest in, 228–30, 307–9

importance in Soviet Union, 8, 35–38, 52–58, 89–92

player mentality, 77–80

See alsoWorld Chess Championship;

specific tournaments

Chess(musical), 308

Chess, Anita, 229

Chess Digest(magazine), 130

Chess Fever(film), 198

Chess Olympiad, 17, 24, 25, 53, 63, 75, 83, 85, 295, 300

“chicken” (suicidal game), 188–90

China, 52, 282

Church, George, 299

CIA, 143, 260

civil rights movement, 11

Clarke, P. H., 89

cold war, 176, 227, 239, 270–80, 308–9

Collins, Jack, 6, 30, 221

Communist Party, Soviet, 50–54, 57, 58, 61–66, 129, 301

chess governance by, 37–38, 50, 52, 57

Spassky—Fischer match problems and, 155, 260–61

Spassky’s defeat and, 287, 290–93

Spassky’s nonmembership in, 61–62

Spassky training plan and, 109–13

youth league, 39, 63, 102

Corn, Ira G., 296

Corriere della Sera, 228

counterculture, 11

Cramer, Fred, 133, 136–37, 141, 146, 159–60, 165, 173–76, 198–200, 203, 205–6, 210–14, 218, 223, 224, 235–37, 241, 243, 251, 281, 282, 300

Cuba, 7, 16–17, 279

“Cue Fanfare” (song), 308–9

Czechoslovakia, 63

D

Darrach, Brad, 133, 145, 146, 160, 161, 173, 212, 272–73

Davies, Norman, 54–55

Davis, Andrew, 132–36, 138–39, 145–46, 154, 171–74, 179

Davis, Angela, 63–65

Dean, James, 20, 188

de Groot, Adrian, 75–76

Demichev, Piotr, 109, 110, 112, 113, 155, 287

detente, 275–80

Dime Savings Bank, 229

Dobrynin, Anatoli, 55, 143, 175, 276

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 50, 58–60, 61, 295

Duchamp, Marcel, 75