Bobby Fischer: from prodigy to pariah | Sport | The Observer In 1999, I spent three days sitting in a variety of thermal baths dotted around Budapest. As grand and attractive as the Hungarian capital's spas are, I wasn't stewing myself for therapeutic or leisure purposes. Instead, I was waiting for someone I'd been told frequented the baths, someone who was said to be a genius and a paranoid obsessive, the greatest chess player who ever lived and an obnoxious crackpot. I was looking for Bobby Fischer. For the last four decades of his life, that's what people did with Fischer – they looked for him. As with those other great disappearing acts, JD Salinger, Greta Garbo and Howard Hughes, Fischer was almost as well known for his withdrawal from public life as he was for the achievements that brought him fame in the first place. Had I run into him, I wasn't expecting him to be any happier. In the event, the bath-house stake-out was a failure. His descent into wild and irrational behaviour is far from a unique narrative, particularly in chess.
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