RJF wasn't crazy ON the chessboard as many of the commentators seem to (implicitly) imply!... He certainly had a certain psychopathology (at his life outside chess) but he was neither REALLY delirious nor hallucinated... though he had some obsessions or (much accurate...) he was desperately trying to convince everybody (including himself) that he had some obsessions and all... I have in mind his expressed hate towards every Jew and his persecution ideas; however these very "obsessions" weren't strong enough to convince him to refuse the invitation of the father of the (Jewish) Polgar family to visit them and stay at their home; in fact he did visit them and he did stay at the home of the very Polgar family (eating the food they offered him!!) for more that one year!! I point this very fact to the site's MANY would-be psychiatrists ... adding that i) this science is perhaps harder that chess and ii) we aren't likes of Fischer even in chess...

Regarding this very game, it only proves that Bobby Fischer wasn't a God, nothing more. I also think that Florin Gheorghiu played very well but this is for the ... machines to judge and decide.

Fischer's losses to both Boris Spassky (before 1972) and Efim Geller are something else; I guess that Spassky was stronger than Bobby before 1967 but the Geller case is something different; the important thing here isn't that Efim Geller played five times like Gheorghiu did once but the fact that Fischer didn't find a way to truly react all these times; Ok, he won three games but the fact is that he didn't react well five times; this is different from the case of his unique loss to Gheorghiu, here you could guess that Fischer tended either to underestimate or to check out his opponent...

However Regina's caring wasn't enough to cover Bobby's fundamental emotional needs ("Anand should have a better upbringing than I did..."; Fischer's own words to Helgi Olafsson after his meeting with Vishy Anand in Iceland) and Fischer should have felt too much Paul Nemenyi's presence and his absence also... He famously spoke about the importance of a father figure for him and his related need ...

I guess that both Paul Nemenyi and Regina Fischer were dearest to Fischer's heart and simultaneously a source of greatest frustration and intense anger, hate in fact, due to Regina's lack of ability to make Bobby really happy and Paul Nemenyi's rare (and dearest) presence and long absence which had intensified Regina's flaws. Of course these two persons were Bobby Fischer's real (and unique) emotional foundation, therefore he was in need to somehow get rid of this intense hate in order to save his very emotional foundation and his very "ego". It's then easy to guess that Fischer "made use" of a fundamental mechanism of the defense of ego, a mechanism called "displacement": he convinced himself that he didn't hate his beloved parents (who were Jews) but the (other) Jews and (almost!...) everything related to Jews except his parents...

The very acceptance from Fischer's part of the invitation of the father of the Polgar sisters is an evidence that (both consciously and unconsciously!) had realized that his most profound need and desire was to feel part of a normal and happy family, at least to feel the related feelings among them. Therefore this very desire of him should be stronger than the displacement's functions... which -after all- wasn't "universal and absolute": Fischer's "back of the head" permitted him to pay a very human visit to hospitalized Mikhail Tal in Curacao and also to send an encouragement letter to Victor Korchnoi back at 1976 though he had been certainly aware that both Tal and Korchnoi were children of Jewish families... By the way Fischer should have develop gratitude and love feelings towards the Polgar sisters and their family; he only decided to go away when the Polgar sisters received an invitation for a simultaneous exhibition from the U.S. army; Bobby Fischer was fully aware that he had opened issues with his home and he didn't want the Polgar family to get involved at this conflict, so he did his best in order to become obvious that the Polgar family wasn't ... a part of the problem.

Around 1960, he made a statement about a rook-like house, a "personal castle" of his with the shape of a chess rook, that someday some architect would design for Bobby Fischer, ... the greatest chess player (who ever would live) in Earth... This is clear evidence (to me) that he had started to desperately try to get rid to the love for his parents ... for obvious reasons. How? He did try to fall in love with himself, to make use of his skills and achievements in order to convince himself that he wasn't in need of anyone, in fact he was an exceptional individual beyond comparison and therefore he had to love himself!! This is the case of Bobby Fischer's "megalomania" and his (mild!...) paranoia...

In my opinion he tried hard for that and an evidence of his success is the very Fischer-boom, his great influence on his fellow countrymen who though they mostly didn't seriously understand chess, they fell in love with this game because they had fallen in love with Bobby himself!! Fischer then could justify the idea that if so many persons had fallen in love with him, he could of course fall himself in love with nobody else than himself... Therefore he could get rid of his very controversial and extremely painful (but real and solid...) emotional foundation of his...

The peak of this "development" should be the years 1970-1972 and it's almost obvious from his public performances; if my conjecture is true, then -around 1970- he should have minimized contacts with his mother and even his sister. However I wonder when Paul Nemenyi died -or had died- because this very death should be another reason to get rid from his love to his parents, any hope to get close with his father also had died then... Of course Paul Nemenyi had another family and he would have stopped to get involved in the Fischer family life after 1956, when Bobby started to become famous and to can afford himself ... or so...

Bobby Fischer also chose to ... make amends (among other things of greatest importance for him) during and after the occasion of the 1992 rematch with Boris Spassky; it was necessary for him not to love but at least to respect himself and his self-esteem had suffered during the "Pasadena jailhouse" incident... Of course he way exaggerated during this effort of his (I have in mind his reaction regarding the 9/11 assault etc.) but he was in need to make amends and he had also too much pain and therefore a lot of hate and aggression and all that (even) without the "Pasadena jailhouse"...

There is so a third period in Bobby Fischer's mental life, his efforts to regain his lost self-respect (from 1982 until 1992 or even 2003) and perhaps a fourth period, that is when he realized that he had already achieved the aforementioned purpose when he (was permitted to be) landed in Iceland and his life in Iceland during his final years...

However all that seems to me that it should be obvious -as one "interpretation" or "reconstruction", a conjecture that is- for any student of psychoanalysis and I thus keep wondering about the reason of some so poor movies like "The pawn sacrifice"... It's funny that people creates greatest movies about fictional (and therefore relatively harmless) heroes-and-villains like Hannibal Lecter etc. and -at the same time- are unable to create a serious movie about Bobby Fischer's case which however involves "real and actual" emotional complications of the real people...