If it wasn't for that, I might never have picked up a chess piece. Was that the most influential world championship ever?

(not just because it got me into chess, you understand ;-))

I think that during the Kasparov, Karpov and Short era in which got me more interested in chess.

I suppose it's down to age. The Iceland games were maybe the first to get BIG attention (far more than nowadays, even). Perhaps that's what got me interested. Or maybe it was just how nutty, and brilliant, Fischer was...

I think you are right, is it to do with age, the coverage especially In the USA big news, I don't think is was showed in NZ, I was 7 then.

Great book called Bobby Fischer Goes To War. Not so much about the chess, as about everything around it.

I think this must have been the first world championship to have a real worldwide interest (if only because the US had a say in what was going on...)

He got my dad into it

i grew up a chess kid

Sorry, who? Fischer?

Trying to converse on these sites is like trying to talk on a drunken party phone line...

(but duller, obviously)