Who is Bobby Fischer’s opponent in this picture?
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Who is Bobby Fischer’s opponent in this picture?
Bent Larsen of Denmark
I’m guessing it is the guy sitting across from him.
Polugaevsky of the USSR.
I think its Bob Hope.
Brad Hoehne
LOL@Anonymous 12:42:00
Usually Fischer’s opponents are referred to as “the loser”.
Bob Hope
0 – 6 Larsen
Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope. If my recollection of watching the skit at the time is correct, it ended with Hope “winning” by a quintuple checker-jump.
Florian Gheorghiu?
Over 9000!!!???
Kasparov right before he resigned.
llooks like tal. on his senior days. jb.
Well, it can’t be Tal, this guy has all five fingers…
silvio danailov
its Bob hope
NOT LAESON
It’s a skinny Willar Scott.
Willard Scott
Taimanov
Richard Nixon. Fischer looks dazed and stumped with all the dirty tricks that Nixon managed to come up with on the board!
it’s gata kamsky’s father
Max Fischer, his beloved brohter, with slightly more talent, but who chose to be farmer.