Secret Net chess player may be Bobby Fischer “I am 99 percent sure that I have been playing against the chess legend. It’s tremendously exciting,” Short said. He said he has overwhelming evidence that the man who beat him comfortably is the same man who defeated Boris Spassky, the Russian world champion, in an epic battle of the “superpowers” in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1972.
Afterward, Fischer disappeared from the public eye until 1992, when he briefly returned to play Spassky again for a 20th anniversary rematch in the then-pariah state of Serbia. Fischer won, then disappeared again, hotly pursued by the U.S. government, which had indicted him for breaking the United Nations embargo of Serbia.