When he [Bobby Fischer] was at the board playing, it was like God was playing - The purity of his thought, the search for truth, the ability to go to the core of a problem. Bobby never looked for an easy move that would blow away his opponent. He looked for the truth in chess. - Shelby Lyman.

“When he [Fischer] was at the board playing, it was like God was playing,” says Shelby Lyman, who narrated the eventual, inevitable world championship match for public television.

“The purity of his thought, the search for truth, the ability to go to the core of a problem. Bobby never looked for an easy move that would blow away his opponent. He looked for the truth in chess.”

—found in “Life is not a board game” [archive]
—Peter Nicholas and Clea Benson
—The Philadelphia Inquirer (Jan. 18, 2008)