You make it look like I said that.>

I'm OK it's just you know what the lads & lassies here are like. They never read the whole thread just the last few posts.

I'm not sure if Fischer after going 3-0 down would have walked away. He would have forfeited a large chunk of money which at the time he needed.

He's been 3-0 down to Spassky before. In 1972 after the default in Game 2 due to the match tied rule Spassky would have won the match so in effect Fischer was 3-0 down. Though of course apart from flashes of brilliance the Fischer of '92 was not the Fischer of '72.

The Spassky book:

(Neither of course was Spassky.)

But if Fischer had walked away Spassky wins the match and the money, Fischer gets nothing. So any talk of Spassky playing 'obvious technical mistakes' on purpose to keep the match going is a bit bizarre.

Spassky has said that he has written a book on his match v Fisher he may mention the '92 match and put this rumour to bed or may even endorse it.

The UBS asked Mr. Fischer for his banking details in Iceland in order to transfer all his assets and deposits with the bank, around three million dollars, notifying him at the same time about its unilateral decision to terminate all business relationship with him, without stating any reason or clarification for the action. Then, against Mr. Fischer's repeated protests, the UBS, after some extension of the deadline, went ahead in August 2005 and transferred all his funds to the Landsbanki in Reykjavik. The UBS even liquidated all of Fischer's gold coins, from his match with Boris Spassky in Sveti Stefan in 1992, and other investments, without his prior approval at a time when the rate for gold was very unfavorable.>

http://en.chessbase.com/post/fische...

<Reportedly, when Bobby Fischer was diagnosed with kidney disease in 2007, he did not fully appreciate what would happen. He refused the painful treatments prescribed for him and died within a few months, without even a simple will.

This set the stage for a lengthy battle — one that is still far from finished. The three-sided match pits his Japanese wife/girlfriend, Miyoko Watai, vs. a Filipino woman who says he fathered her daughter, Marilyn Young, vs. two estranged nephews. Reportedly, Fischer did not like that their parents practiced Judaism.

[...]

So how much are they maneuvering for? Reportedly, somewhere between one to two million dollars. There’s a very big “but” though.>

The 1992 match left him independently wealthy (if you call 3 million wealthy). I don't. I would call it rich.

And we got our money the old-fashioned way.

We inherited it!!>

Even in his years of triumph, Mr. Fischer was volatile and difficult. During the 1972 world championship match against Mr. Spassky, Mr. Fischer’s petulance, even loutishness, was the stuff of front page headlines all over the globe. Incensed by the conditions under which the match was to be played — he was particularly offended by the whir of television cameras in the hall — he lost the first game, then forfeited the second and insisted that the remaining games be played in an isolated room.>

Heh, heh,
...these "insider secrets" were revealed in:

Sure nuff. I asked a man once, "How do you make a small fortune here in Hawai'i?"

Yet

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Better than Fischer's

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