Bobby Fischer the Jew, the best chess player

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Period.

tygxc

Bobby Fischer himself denied being a Jew, wrote to Encyclopaedia Judaica to have his entry removed, denied the Holocaust, expressed anti-semitism, and said in an interview he was not circumcised.
https://stljewishlight.org/arts-entertainment/jewish-or-not-bobby-fisher/ 

Bobby Fischer was stellar in 1971, defeated Spassky in 1972, but that was it.
Kasparov is regarded as better
http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/PeakList.asp 

 

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Bobby fischer legend.

mpaetz

     Fischer's mother was Jewish. Under strict Jewish law, that makes him Jewish. In reality he was as Jewish as Mohammed.