Blunders rarely travel alone.

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.