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Yeah, it's been retconned somehow that Fischer was this non-booked up player and didn't like opening theory. Instead, it's his convenient excuse for not wanting to study anymore.

There was probably not a more booked-up player than Fischer in his prime, something he seemed to try to make people forget. Famously when asked about a young Soviet prodigy by the Soviets, Fischer responded that the kid was good, but that there was a better player in their women's division who had more signs of promise. Many of the Soviet masters had no idea who Bobby was talking about; but Bobby was reading all Soviet chess literature and magazines to stay up to date.

That said, FRC is pretty interesting.




He didn't try to make people forget it, he just didn't keep it up.




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