孤独地对抗全世界(下)(2)
费舍尔在苏联人自己的领域内打败了他们自己,一举摧毁了苏联的国际象棋帝国,为老美在冷战中赢得了第一回合。人们没有过分计较他那些令人反感的古怪行为,反而把他当作国家英雄看待,甚至总统尼克松本人也亲自向他道贺。据说费舍尔拒绝了尼克松的接见,因为总统不会为此付他钱,斯帕斯基回国后声望一落千丈,他遭到所有人的指责,不得不移居法国从此不再染指国相,几个月后尼克松访问苏联的时候送给党总书记勃列日涅夫一幅袖珍的国际象棋,令后者极为尴尬。
The whole world belonged Fischer then, he was rich, handsome and young, he was the blue-eyed boy of the media and idol of the girls. He could command the wind as long as he intends and start a new epoch, yet disappointingly, he fell down from the height. His bigotry manifested itself long before his career peaks, and at this point, it became much more serious. He once accused his opponent of poisoning his meal, bugging the phone in the hotel room he stayed at, he censured Russians for conspiracy against him. He suffered from flight phobia, because he fears sabotage by Russians against his plane. He began to reject everyone, insulate himself from anybody who wants to help him and allowed himself sinking into paranoid delusions. Shortly afterwards, he made speeches against America, and became malicious and aggressive towards Jews, of which his mother Regina is a part. Thereafter, he broke off with Regina. As to his anti-Semitism, junior Russian chess player Garry Kasparov wrote in his biography, “Perhaps Fischer’s anti-Semitic feeling has something to do with the fact that most of his rivals, whom Fischer had friction with, are Jews. Everyone sided against him with an aim to stop him from advancing to world champion, and since then Fischer was at deep enmity with them.” 1975 is the year for Fischer to defend his champion, as he put forward excessive demands to International Chess Federation and the latter made no compromise, Fischer gave up his title to the Russian chess player Anatoly Karpov. From then on, Fischer seemed vanished from the earth, his reappearance to hit the headlines always had nothing to do with chess. In 1980s, he had been arrested in California for being mistaken for a bank robber. As time goes by, he became increasingly abnormal and indulged, day after day, in his own paranoia and vain hope. Fischer was preparing for his final round, it reduced him to a pain in the ass, an exile and a pariah even if it provided him a considerable amount of money.