AG>SM>Could someone please elaborate on the circumstances surrounding Bobby
AG>SM>Fischer's being stripped of the World Title back in the 1970's?
AG> CB> He refused to defend his title when he was challenged.  And as with 
mos
AG>There was alot more to it than that. I was reading in a Chess book that
AG> KGB documents opened recently showed that there was a definate strategy,
AG>in trying to push him to forfiet his title in 1975
I didn't know about that.
AG> they targeted Fischers
AG>Psycological weakeness, staying firm on points where he was least likely
AG>to concede and they were prepared to argue and argue
AG>until negociations collapsed. He saved them the trouble.
Well,.... yeah.  But that's sort of like saying President Richard Nixon
resigned just because he felt like it.  Of course there was a whole slew
of politics around it.
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