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Weird History is a YouTube channel that provides chronicles of history in a form never covered in high school. It looks at the extreme, the unexpected, the untold and the flat-out weird parts of history. "Because as weird as people seem today, we don't hold a candle to history," they claim. They have 4.31 million subscribers and have registered over half a billion views. After posting over 700 videos they have descended on Bobby Fischer. Here is the video portrait, for what it is worth.

Half a century ago, exactly on this day, the most famous chess match in history began: Boris Spassky vs Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik, Iceland. Five year ago we celebrated the event by reporting on it, game for game, as if it was all taking place live. Today we bring you links to all the reports we published at the time, starting with our full report on the drama that surrounded game one. It contains original film footage which nobody should miss.