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Bobby Fischer Against the World charts the turbulent life of troubled chess genius Bobby Fischer, who was a gifted child prodigy and went on to become World Champion in 1972, after a nail-biting match against reigning Russian champion Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War. After subsequently losing the title by default in 1975 (because he refused to defend his title), Fischer more or less disappeared from the public eye, only to become a fugitive 17 years later, when he broke U.N. sanctions by playing a rematch against Spassky in Yugoslavia and was exiled by the U.S. government.