The generation that I lived and grew up in, I believe is too arrogant and stupid to recognize history for what its worth. I bet 5 people know who Bobby Fischer was. Some people knew him as a chess master. Some people knew him as a great chess player. Some people knew him as an American hero. Some people knew him as a Cold War icon. Others might have known him in his later years as an American defect, a lunatic, and an anti-Semite. But for a brief time, he became that icon when he scored an American victory in the Cold War by beating the defending champion Boris Spassky in the World Chess Championship in 1972.
