Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky in the 1972 "Match of the Century" and became the only American to win the World Chess Championship during the Cold War. Then he disappeared from competitive chess for twenty years, resurfaced to play an illegal rematch in war-torn Yugoslavia, became a wanted man by the U.S. government, and spent his final years as a paranoid, anti-Semitic recluse in Iceland.

This episode traces Fischer from his Brooklyn prodigy years through the Reykjavik match that transfixed the world, his decades of isolation, and the tragic unraveling of the greatest natural chess talent who ever lived.

• Fischer's obsessive childhood study of chess and his rise as the youngest U.S. champion in history
• The 1972 Reykjavik match against Spassky and its role as a Cold War proxy battle
• Twenty years of seclusion  ...