Khrushchev, Nikita, 8, 51, 55–56, 110
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 11
Kissinger, Henry, 189, 230, 270, 276, 278, 296, 298
phone calls to Fischer by, 143–44, 148, 150, 175, 276
Kline, Harold, 6
Kmoch, Hans, 226
Koestler, Arthur, 1, 24, 72, 270
Komsomol, 39, 63, 102
Korbut, Olga, 232, 299
Korchnoi, Viktor, 13, 34, 46, 58, 67, 80, 86, 87, 93, 120, 121, 177, 200, 294–95, 300, 301, 310
Kosygin, Andrei, 51, 109
Kotov, Aleksandr, 33, 88, 91, 104–5, 253
Krogius, Nikolai, 21, 61, 62, 65, 68, 105, 106, 107, 113, 117, 118, 120–21, 133, 147, 174, 202, 217–18, 251, 254, 255, 258, 260, 262–67, 273, 287, 288, 291–92
Krylenko, Nikolai, 36, 58
Kulakov, Fiodor, 52
Kurtis, Donald, 272
L
Ladbrokes of London, 229
Larsen, Bent, 21, 28, 29, 45, 46, 47, 83, 86, 87, 92–93, 96, 104, 105, 131, 192, 205, 206, 219–20, 253, 310
Lasker, Emanuel, 35, 74, 310
Latyntseva, Nadezhda, 44
Lawson, Dominic, 79
Laxness, Halldor, 142–43
Lenin, V. I., 35, 36, 39, 63, 68
Leningrad, 33–35, 40, 54–55, 58–61, 124, 133
Leone, Sebastian, 295
Levenfish, Grigori, 40
Levy, David, 196, 302, 307
Lindsay, John, 226, 295
Litvinov, Viktor, 259
Lockhart, Bruce, 36
Loftleidir hotel, 153, 175, 198–99, 282
Lombardy, William, 6, 43, 133–34, 156, 160, 167, 171, 175, 209, 220, 222, 223
Lopez, Ruy, 133
Lvov, Comrade, 262
Lyman, Shelby, 226, 227
M
MacNeice, Louis, 122, 191
madman theory, 188–89
Magnusson, Gunnar, 164
Makarova, Vera, 130
Manhattan Chess Club, 6
Mannusson, Pitur, 194
Marshall, Bette, 150–51, 258
Marshall, Frank, 35
Marshall, Paul, 128, 129, 133–35, 148–51, 154, 157, 158, 160, 161, 163, 171, 175–76, 179–80, 184–85, 216, 257–58, 266, 290, 297, 309
Marshall Club, 7, 227
“Match of the Century,” 2
mathematics, chess and, 74–75
May, Karl, 137
Mecking, Henrique, 86
Mednis, Edmar, 227, 308
Melen’tiev, Stanislav, 206–7, 268
Merridale, Catherine, 51, 54
Metropolitan Museum (N.Y.C.), 228
Moeller, Baldur, 174, 178
Mokarow, Claudia, 302
Morphy, Paul, 77, 78
Morris, Joe Alex, Jr., 193, 194
Moscow Central Chess Club, 9, 259
Moscow Chess (magazine), 114
Motley, Constance Baker, 224
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 73
Munich Olympics (1972), 232
musicians, chess and, 73–74
N
Nabokov, Vladimir, 70
Najdorf, Miguel, 4, 76–77, 192, 228
Nash, John, 187
National Security Council, 143, 298
Nazism, 37, 54
Nei, Ivo, 106, 113, 119, 120, 133, 166, 208, 213, 235, 236, 240, 250, 260, 263, 265–67
Nemenyi, Paul, 5, 306
New York Times, 136, 137, 167, 226, 230, 247–48, 272, 279, 296
Nicholas II, 35, 38–39, 60
Nigro, Carmine, 6
Nikashkin, Valentin, 261, 262, 263, 268
Nikitin, Aleksandr, 9, 57, 259
Nixon, Richard, 12, 55, 193, 230–31, 271, 276–79
Fischer and, 93, 96, 247, 298–99
madman theory of, 188–89
