Friday, July 10, 2026

A King’s Incognito


The story of the visit incognito of dethroned World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer in West Berlin in 1978, so as it appeared in BSV-Mitteilungsblatt, Volume 58, Issue 2, March/April 2008, pp. 14-15. It also reproduced the fateful picture — originally published in the Berliner Morgenpost of the time — that costed Alfred Seppelt the excommunication by Fischer.

Photo taken by Bobby Fischer’s mother at the Brandenburg Gate in 1978. (From the photo archive of Alfred Seppelt, left in the picture).

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