Gufeld, Edouard, 53
H
Haig, Alexander, 298
Haldeman, H. R., 188–89
Hallgrimsson, Geir, 138
Hartston, Bill, 78, 227
Hassan, Lome, 201, 205
Hastings (tournament), 148
Hawthorne Chess Club, 6
Hearst, Eliot, 30
Helms, Hermann, 6
Helms, Richard, 271
Hingley, Ronald, 56–57
Hitler, Adolf, 26, 34, 189, 305
“Holy Fool” figure, 67–68
Hoover, J. Edgar, 306
Hope, Bob, 297, 298
Hort, Vlastimil, 86, 294
Hübner, Robert, 86, 87
Huntington, Samuel P., 277
I
Iceland, 13, 122–29, 132–33, 138–46, 163, 176, 180, 191–96, 244
Icelandic Chess Federation, 124, 127, 134–35, 162, 170–73, 180, 186, 200–201, 203, 216, 219, 221, 224, 235, 239, 242, 311
Iliin-Zhenevskii, Aleksandr Fiodorvich, 35–36
In Confidence (Dobrynin), 276
International Chess Federation, 37, 300
International Institute for Strategic Studies, 276–77
Interzonals, 9, 10, 19, 43, 82, 85–87
Amsterdam (1964), 16, 45
Palma (1970), 189
Sousse (1967), 17–18, 190
Stockholm (1962), 13
Ivonin, Viktor, 62, 64, 67, 99, 101–3, 105, 107–10, 113, 116–19, 121, 126, 147, 150, 155, 156, 167–68, 177–78, 180, 184, 200, 202, 255, 256, 261–63, 267, 268, 287–92, 294
Ivushkina, Aleksandra, 116
J
Jackovich, Victor, 156–57, 221–22, 247, 257, 271
Janosevic, Dragoljub, 192
Jews, 15, 27, 37, 170. See also anti-Semitism
Johannesson, Olafur, 124, 138, 141, 143, 146, 154
Johannsson, Freysteinn, 135
Johnson, Lyndon, 11
Jones, Ernest, 78
Josefsson, Gunnlaugur, 221
K
Kahn, Herman, 188, 190
Kaiser, Robert, 274
Karpov, Anatoli, 99, 107, 113, 166, 184, 197, 259, 292, 299–301, 304
Kashdan, Isaac, 233
Kasparov, Garry, 259, 301, 304, 308, 310
Kavalek, Lubomir, 192
Kazantsev, Comrade, 65–66
Keflavik air base, 142, 257, 305
Keres, Paul, 13, 37, 46, 65, 68, 106, 121, 200, 310
KGB, 61, 63, 64, 65, 106, 113, 253, 254, 255, 257–64, 267
Khrushchev, Nikita, 8, 51, 55–56, 110
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 11
Kissinger, Henry, 189, 230, 270, 276, 278, 296, 298
phone calls to Fischer by, 143–44, 148, 150, 175, 276
Kline, Harold, 6
Kmoch, Hans, 226
Koestler, Arthur, 1, 24, 72, 270
Komsomol, 39, 63, 102
Korbut, Olga, 232, 299
Korchnoi, Viktor, 13, 34, 46, 58, 67, 80, 86, 87, 93, 120, 121, 177, 200, 294–95, 300, 301, 310
Kosygin, Andrei, 51, 109
Kotov, Aleksandr, 33, 88, 91, 104–5, 253
Krogius, Nikolai, 21, 61, 62, 65, 68, 105, 106, 107, 113, 117, 118, 120–21, 133, 147, 174, 202, 217–18, 251, 254, 255, 258, 260, 262–67, 273, 287, 288, 291–92
Krylenko, Nikolai, 36, 58
Kulakov, Fiodor, 52
Kurtis, Donald, 272
L
Ladbrokes of London, 229
Larsen, Bent, 21, 28, 29, 45, 46, 47, 83, 86, 87, 92–93, 96, 104, 105, 131, 192, 205, 206, 219–20, 253, 310
Lasker, Emanuel, 35, 74, 310
Latyntseva, Nadezhda, 44
Lawson, Dominic, 79
Laxness, Halldor, 142–43
Lenin, V. I., 35, 36, 39, 63, 68
Leningrad, 33–35, 40, 54–55, 58–61, 124, 133
Leone, Sebastian, 295
Levenfish, Grigori, 40
Levy, David, 196, 302, 307
Lindsay, John, 226, 295
Litvinov, Viktor, 259
Lockhart, Bruce, 36
Loftleidir hotel, 153, 175, 198–99, 282
Lombardy, William, 6, 43, 133–34, 156, 160, 167, 171, 175, 209, 220, 222, 223
Lopez, Ruy, 133
Lvov, Comrade, 262
Lyman, Shelby, 226, 227
M
MacNeice, Louis, 122, 191
madman theory, 188–89
Magnusson, Gunnar, 164
Makarova, Vera, 130
Manhattan Chess Club, 6
Mannusson, Pitur, 194
Marshall, Bette, 150–51, 258
Marshall, Frank, 35
Marshall, Paul, 128, 129, 133–35, 148–51, 154, 157, 158, 160, 161, 163, 171, 175–76, 179–80, 184–85, 216, 257–58, 266, 290, 297, 309
Marshall Club, 7, 227
“Match of the Century,” 2
mathematics, chess and, 74–75
May, Karl, 137
Mecking, Henrique, 86
Mednis, Edmar, 227, 308
Melen’tiev, Stanislav, 206–7, 268
Merridale, Catherine, 51, 54
Metropolitan Museum (N.Y.C.), 228
Moeller, Baldur, 174, 178
Mokarow, Claudia, 302
Morphy, Paul, 77, 78
Morris, Joe Alex, Jr., 193, 194
Moscow Central Chess Club, 9, 259
Moscow Chess (magazine), 114
Motley, Constance Baker, 224
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 73
Munich Olympics (1972), 232
musicians, chess and, 73–74
My 60 Memorable Games (Fischer), 12–13
N
Nabokov, Vladimir, 70
Najdorf, Miguel, 4, 76–77, 192, 228
Nash, John, 187
National Security Council, 143, 298
Nazism, 37, 54
Nei, Ivo, 106, 113, 119, 120, 133, 166, 208, 213, 235, 236, 240, 250, 260, 263, 265–67
Nemenyi, Paul, 5, 306
New York Times, 136, 137, 167, 226, 230, 247–48, 272, 279, 296
Nicholas II, 35, 38–39, 60
Nigro, Carmine, 6
Nikashkin, Valentin, 261, 262, 263, 268
Nikitin, Aleksandr, 9, 57, 259
Nixon, Richard, 12, 55, 193, 230–31, 271, 276–79
Fischer and, 93, 96, 247, 298–99
madman theory of, 188–89
Notes from Underground (Dostoyevsky), 58, 59
O
objectivism, 66–67
Olafsson, Fridrik, 28, 151, 172, 185, 192
Olafsson, Torfi, 139
Olympic Games, 11, 232, 273, 275
Operation Barbarossa, 34
P
Palace of Young Pioneers, 39–40
Palsson, Asgeir, 215
Palsson, Saemundur (Saemi-Rock), 214–17, 220, 223, 283–85, 295, 297–99, 309
Panov, Vasili, 104, 107
Paulus, Friedrich von, 114
Pavlov, Sergei, 52, 90, 91, 99–104, 110, 112–14, 155, 156, 200, 261, 268, 275, 295, 301
Penkovskii, Oleg, 58, 254
Petrosian, Rona, 95
Petrosian, Tigran, 2, 9, 13, 14, 17, 20, 22, 23, 28, 29, 38, 43–48, 83, 86, 87, 93–98, 105–7, 114, 116–17, 121, 124, 128, 131, 137, 141, 184, 200, 204, 205, 253, 286, 291, 298–300, 310
Pfleger, Helmut, 81
Philidor, François, 207
Pichtchenko, Vladimir, 259
Pirc, Vasja, 241
Podgornii, Nikolai, 276
Politburo, 51–52, 109, 292
Political Uses of Madness, The(Ellsberg), 189
Polugaievskii, Lev, 86, 300
Ponomarenko, Yuri, 166
Porter, Colin, 215
Portisch, Lajos, 28, 86, 294, 295, 299
Postnikov, V.I., 63, 117–18, 120
Pravda,36, 88
Prefab Sprout (pop group), 308–9
“Problem of Paul Morphy, The” (Jones), 78
Pushkin, Aleksandr, 35, 73