What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
In the days before the Reykjavik event in '72, he had the whole world wondering if he would show up....Plane after plane waited on the runway while he napped or took walks or ate sandwiches....
Henry Kissinger called and asked him to go for his country's honour.
Soon after arriving, he offended the Icelanders by calling their country "inadequate" because it had no bowling alleys....
He complained about the TV cameras, about the lighting, about the table and the chairs, and the contrast of the squares on the board.
His hotel room, he said, had "too nice a view".
None of this had anything to do with chess of course.... But maybe it did.
If he won, he'd be the first American World Champion in history. If he lost he'd just be another potzer from Brooklyn.
On the 54th move of the 21st game, he countered Spassky's Rook to Bishop-5 with a Queen to King-3.
And it was all over.....
He came home an American hero. He bragged to the world he'd beat the Russians. He delivered. He could now command the same money as heavyweight prizefighters. He was invited to dinner with statesmen and kings.
Then Bobby Fischer made the most original, unexpected move of all.....He disappeared.
You want to know what you want? I'll tell you what you want. You want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.
Find it!
[Event "World Chess Championship 1972"]
[Site "Reykjavik"]
[Date "1972.08.31"]
[Round "21"]
[White "Robert James Fischer"]
[Black "Borris Spassky"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A23"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "Bremen, Keres, 4.Nf3 d6"]
[TimeControl "300"]
[Termination "normal"]
[PlyCount "107"]
[WhiteType "human"]
[BlackType "human"]
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 d6
3. Bb5+ c6
4. Bc4 Be7
5. O-O d5
6. Bd3 Nd7
7. c4 d4
8. b4 Ngf6
9. Qa4 O-O
10. Be2 b6
11. d3 c5
12. Re1 Nh5
13. Bg5 Bxg5
14. h4 Nf4
15. Nxg5 b5
16. Qa5 Bb7
17. Bh5 Re8
18. Nxf7 Kf8
19. g3 Qxa5
20. gxf4 cxb4
21. Nd2 Bxe4
22. Rxe4 bxc4
23. fxe5 Nb6
24. Rae1 Rac8
25. e6 Nd7
26. Ne5 Qa3
27. Kf1 b3
28. Bxe8 Kxe8
29. Nxd7 Qb2
30. Nb1 Qc3
31. Nxc3 a5
32. a3 a4
33. f3 g5
34. Na2 bxa2
35. Ra1 Rc6
36. Nf6+ Kf8
37. e7+ Kg7
38. e8=Q Rxf6
39. dxc4 d3
40. h5 d2
41. Ke2 Kh6
42. Re6 Rxe6+
43. Kd3 Rc6
44. Qf8+ Kxh5
45. Qf7+ Kh4
46. Rxa2 h6
47. Ra1 d1=B
48. Rxd1 Rxc4
49. Rh1+ Kg3
50. Qe7 h5
51. Qe5+ Kf2
52. f4 Kf3
53. Rg1 Rc5
54. Qe3# 1-0
To solve this puzzle, remember that the devil is in the details.
If that is not enough, here is another encyphered clue: ASSWUOKWKEZNROYP. Though breaking this clue is a puzzle in its own right. Think Vigenere and remember the key word is on the cache page, in plain sight.
(Note - 3/6/2013 - Revised the encyphered clue. Frodo could not spell the key word properly when he set up the cache page!)