It is no secret I am a huge fan of Bobby Fischer’s chess brilliance and for his extended reign of chess excellence, Garry Kasparov as well. Since the two lives overlapped but the men never met competitively, this was the motivating force behind my deciding to write K2K4 (Knight to King 4: The Fischer-Kasparov Match). When I wrote, I imagined the scenes unfolding as if on a movie screen. Not to say I was being presumptuous; it is merely how the characters took form in my mi

My brother and I had a board set up in the same position as Fischer and Spassky’s in far away Reykjavik that summer of ’72. We sat mesmerized for hours every day, our attention divided equal parts between the board and the endearingly goofy Shelby Lyman on TV. The broadcast was on WNET, Channel 13 in New York, soon to be PBS, primitive even by 1972 standards. After all, Telstar had launched in 1962, allowing transoceanic images to be beamed across the globe. Despite this t