When I was a boy, I remember having civil defense drills in our grade school. “Why are we crouching under our desks?” I’d ask. “Because there could be a nuclear war between us and the Soviet Union that will destroy the world. We want to take safety precautions.” What a…
Category: History
No pantheon of chess legends would be complete without Bobby Fischer, the most famous chess player of all time and one of the most explosive in a field noted for its volatile personalities. 1972. For those of you who don’t remember or weren’t around, that was the year Robert James Fischer…