Poor Bobby Fischer. The former chess champion now languishes in a Tokyo jail, spinning schizophrenic yarns about America and the “international Jewish conspiracy.” The Pasadena Star News comments that “the saddest people are the really smart ones gone crazy. When their insanity–biological, situational, whatever– turns for perverse solace to that weirdest kind of racism, the self-loathing kind, it’s the saddest sight of all.”
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