Interest spiked when American Bobby Fischer toppled his Soviet opponent ... a lottery draw with a bowl of wooden balls determines how the chess board will be scrambled, and the players convene ...

He turned nervously away from the board, as if staring at it might ... exercise routines to balance their sedentary chess playing. Bobby Fischer jogged regularly long before it was fashionable ...

In chess as in life, people use memory as a shortcut for decision-making. That strategy can backfire when the present doesn’t resemblance the past.

This is that kind of thing now." (BBC archive interview with Bobby Fischer) At the time, Fischer declared "chess is war on a board", and at that moment in history it certainly seemed like it.