RP Chess great in BBC-HBO Documentary

RP chess great in BBC-HBO documentary

Eugenio ‘Eugene’ Torre

ASIA’S first Grandmaster Eugenio “Eugene” Torre is appearing in a documentary being filmed by the BBC-HBO on the life of late Robert “Bobby” Fischer, one of the greatest chess player that ever pushed a pawn.

Matthew Justus, co-producer of the project, invited Torre to be in New York on the last week of November for the live interview.

Fischer died of renal failure in Iceland on January 17, 2008 and left some P140 million and gold deposits in the Landsbanki, one of the biggest banks in Iceland.

The BBC-HBO documentary will focus on the chess exploits of Fischer when he single-handedly shamed the Soviet Union by wresting the world title from Boris Spassky during their 1972 epic match in Reykjavik.

It will also feature their return match in the former Yugoslavia which earned a US Federal charge for Fischer resulting in his incarceration in a Japanese airport cell in 2007.

Torre will provide the Philippine connection in Fischer’s life starting with his early visits to the country in the early 70s to his romantic liaisons.