In his heyday in 1972, when he beat Russian Boris Spassky for the World Championship, chess prodigy Bobby Fischer was like a rock star, as famous and revered as Muhammad Ali.

Bobby Fischer Documentary, Like the Subject, Was Hard to Make “Bobby Fischer Against the World,” to be shown on HBO starting next week, needed the right financing as well as believers in the film.

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