Bobby Fischer Goes to War

Sneider, Harry, 302

Soltis, Andrew, 119

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 52, 90, 91

Sophocles, 162

Sosonko, Genna, 119

Soviet Union, 5, 7, 17, 33–35, 50–58

chess’s importance in, 8–9, 35–38, 50, 52–58, 89–92

extra-chess intrigue and, 249–57, 261–67

Fischer’s hatred of, 26

ignorance of West, 55

“Ours (Means) Better” policy, 55, 57

press coverage of match, 274

propaganda edifices, 38

Spassky championship loss and, 287–92

travel restrictions, 53–54, 258–59, 267, 293

See also cold war; Communist Party, Soviet; Sports Committee

Soviet Union Since the Fall of

Khrushchev, The(Brown), 50

Soviet Union vs. the Rest of the World (1970), 82–83

Spanier, David, 285

Spasskaia, Larisa (Boris’s second wife), 44, 46, 107–8, 116, 209, 221, 233, 249–51, 286, 287

Spassky, Boris, 38–69, 99, 131, 216

Angola, lack of interest in, 293

anti-Semitism of, 61

background and youth, 33–35, 38–41, 60

Baturinskii, breach with, 114

Bondarevskii, falling out with, 116

career rise, 41–48

character and beliefs of, 58–61, 64–65

chess style of, 73–74

defection rumors about, 267–69

Dostoyevskian affinities of, 59–60, 61

earnings of, 65–66, 107–8

Estonia, support for, 65

extra-chess intrigue and, 249–51, 253–57, 262, 263, 265–67

Fischer similarities with, 32

Fischer viewed by, 30, 295

Geller’s charges of pressures on, 237–40

Icelanders’ view of, 194–95

life outside of chess of, 77

KGB and, 61, 63, 258–62, 267–69

marriages of, 25, 44, 46, 107–8, 116, 293–94

move to France by, 293–94, 295

post-Fischer match loss by, 282–83, 285–95, 300

on possible Fischer random chess match, 307

Russian history, interest in, 61

Russian patriot, 60

Soviet Communist Party and, 61–66, 109–13, 290–93

and Sports Committee postmortem on

defeat, 287

stress management by, 80–81

Taimanov’s defeat by Fischer and, 92

training plan of, 110

university education of, 43, 60–61

world championship, 48–50, 63–64, 66, 68–69, 84, 98, 100–101, 107, 117, 124, 285

See also Fischer-Spassky competition

Spassky, Ekaterina Petrovna (Boris’s mother), 38, 39

Spassky, Georgi (Boris’s brother), 34, 39

Spassky, Iraida (Boris’s sister), 39

Spassky, Tania (Boris’s daughter), 44

Spassky, Vasili (Boris’s son), 46, 108, 294

Spassky, Vasili Vladimirovich (Boris’s father), 38, 39

Speelman, Jonathan, 167

Spitz, Mark, 232

Sports Committee, USSR, 37–38, 52–53, 62–63, 90, 99–102, 106, 107–14, 155–56, 202, 253–57, 261, 265, 267, 273, 287–91, 293, 294

Stalin, Joseph, 33, 36, 41, 51, 52, 55, 59

State Committee for Physical Training and Sport. See Sports Committee

State Department, U.S., 3, 12, 16, 145, 252

Staunton, Howard, 201

Stein, Leonid, 45, 62, 200

Stein, Richard, 162, 171, 173, 224

Steiner, George, 71, 77, 133–34

Steinitz, Wilhelm, 78

Suslov, Mikhail, 276, 301

Szabo, Laszlo, 41

T

Taimanov, Igor, 87

Taimanov, Mark, 29, 38, 40, 62, 74, 80, 83, 96, 104–5, 131, 205, 253, 287, 310

Fischer match with, 86–93

Tal, Mikhail, 22, 25, 30, 38, 43, 45, 46, 53, 62, 80, 88, 105, 121, 184, 200, 204, 290, 310

Targ, Joan Fischer, 4, 5, 8, 221, 306

Tarrasch, Siegbert, 35

TASS (news agency), 129, 137, 273–74

Thorarinsson, Gudmundur, 124, 127, 128, 138–42, 144, 145, 147, 151–52, 154, 157–58, 161, 163, 164, 170, 171, 180, 183, 197. 201, 237, 281–83, 309

Thorarinsson, Johann, 124

Thordarson, Ulvar, 209–10

Thorsteinsdottir, Anna, 283–84

Tikhomirova, Vera, 118, 121

Tolush, Aleksandr, 40, 41, 43–44

Toner, Bob, 153–54, 227

Torre, Carlos, 78

Treasury Department, U.S., 304

Tremblay, Theodore, 142, 143, 145–46, 153, 154, 160, 251–52, 267–69