AArizona Republic Phoenix, Arizona Wednesday, November 02, 1977 - Page 4
(Charges Were Dropped) Ex-chess champ hunted on charge of hitting woman
South Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) — Police Tuesday sought Bobby Fischer, former world chess champion, on a warrant charging him with forcing his way into the home of a magazine writer and hitting her on the face because of his unhappiness over a story about his affiliation with the Worldwide Church of God.
Sgt. Lonnie Johnson said a warrant accusing Fischer with misdemeanor battery, trespassing and disturbing the peace was issued Friday.
The warrant is based on a complaint by Holly Ruiz, 37, who also has filed suit against Fischer in Superior Court seeking damages of $5,000.
She claimed Fischer, 34, invaded her apartment and ordered her to sign a statement saying she did not inform him that a tape recorder was being used in the interview for Ambassador Report.
When she refused, Fischer allegedly struck Mrs. Ruiz on the face and knee.
She told police that Fischer had agreed to be interviewed by the magazine and had talked for hours with reporters while a tape recorder was in plain view.
The story, titled “Bobby Fischer Speaks Out!” quotes Fischer as saying he paid the church $94,315 in eight years.
“We don't know where Fischer is,” said Johnson. “We're trying to contact his lawyer so that he can surrender on the warrant. If he won't, then we'll have to find out where he is and arrest him.”
Fischer was stripped of his world chess title in 1975 and has become a recluse.
Fischer's attorney Stan Rader, said Fischer was unavailable for comment.
But Rader said he was preparing a suit against Ambassador Report for “violation of Mr. Fischer's rights.”
The attorney said Fischer agreed to talk to reporters for the magazine, but specified that nothing he said was for publication. Fischer contends he was tape recorded more than once without his knowledge.
Unauthorized publication of his comments represents an “invasion of privacy and is slanderous or libelous,” the attorney said.
“Mr. Fischer is very experienced in dealing with reporters, journalists and writers and made himself perfectly clear to the people at the Ambassador Report,” Rader said.
At this point in Fischer's life, he's been gaslighted by Soviet Press, manipulated out of the world chess title through politics, instead of fair chess play. He's been manipulated into becoming the subject of a defamatory book by Brad Darrach who had a long-running history of defamation and unethical journalism. The Soviets and Icelandic chess federation manipulated Chester Fox filing a $3.2 million lawsuit against Fischer for an agreement he never made over film rights. Fischer has been financially swindled by Stanley Rader, the Worldwide Church of God's attorney. Fischer was also swindled by the cult's doctrines of terror which he believed since around 1962. Now, he's being pulled into the drama brewing between Rader/Armstrong and church dissidents. At this point everyone is playing “tug of war” with Fischer's mind, and since the charges were dropped (according to New York Times), there's no reason to believe Fischer did any of the things accused by Mrs. Ruiz. For a person on the Autism Spectrum, this scenario Fischer has had forced upon him in his life, would be utterly devastating. When it feels like the world is conspiring against you… All he wanted to do, was to play chess, but somehow people have always found a way to destroy his ambitions through politics and religion and the abuse of mass media to achieve those ends.
