“On Bobby’s scorecard that day, it all looked so simple, so preordained. When it was over, in his typically illegible hand, he scrawled ‘Mate’ (it looked like ‘Mute’) — and then put on his jacket and left with his mom.”
Remembering the 1956 match of chess prodigy Bobby Fischer and Donald Byrne.
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