Chess genius Bobby Fischer, emerging from decades in seclusion, made headlines this week after spewing anti-Semitic remarks at a news conference in Yugoslavia, the site of his rematch with Russian Boris Spassky.
Fischer, whose mother is Jewish, was well known for his anti-Semitic rancor during the height of his fame when he became the first American world chess champion two decades ago.
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