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==Sudden obscurity==

After the 1972 World Chess Championship, Fischer did not play a competitive game in public for nearly 20&nbsp;years.<ref>[[#Seirawan|Seirawan & Stefanovic (1992)]], p. 22.</ref> In 1977 he published three games he played against the [[MIT]] [[Richard Greenblatt (programmer)|Greenblatt]] computer program, winning them all.<ref>{{cite web |author=Penrod, Douglas |date=7 April 1977 |title=Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 1|url=https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/doc-431614f6d632c/ |access-date=8 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Bisguier, Arthur |date=June 22, 1988 |title=When Bobby Fischer took on a computer |newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0622/lchs22.html|access-date=October 7, 2024}}</ref>

He moved to the Los Angeles area and associated with the [[Worldwide Church of God]] for a time.<ref>[[#Brady2011|Brady 2011]], p. 210. "His connection to the Church was always somewhat ambiguous. He was not a registered member, since he hadn't agreed to be baptized by full immersion in water by Armstrong or one of his ministers. And since he wasn't considered a duly recognized convert, he was sometimes referred to as a 'co-worker' or, less politely, as a 'fringer' — someone on the fringes or edges of the Church but not totally committed to its mission. The Church imposed a number of rules that Bobby thought were ridiculous and refused to adhere to [...]"</ref> On May 26, 1981, while walking in Pasadena, Fischer was arrested by a police patrolman, because he resembled a man who had just committed a robbery in the area.<ref>[[#F1982|Fischer 1982]], p. 1.</ref> Fischer, who alleged that he was slightly injured during the arrest,<ref>[[#F1982|Fischer 1982]], p. 2.</ref> said that he was held for two days, subjected to assault and various types of mistreatment,<ref>[[#F1982|Fischer 1982]], pp. 3–14.</ref> and released on $1,000 [[Bail in the United States|bail]].<ref>[[#F1982|Fischer 1982]], pp. 10–12.</ref> Fischer published a 14-page pamphlet detailing his allegations of police misconduct, saying that his arrest had been "a frame up and set up".<ref>[[#F1982|Fischer 1982]], p. 14.</ref><ref name="torture">{{cite web |url=http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/ephemera/Jailhouse.pdf |title=I Was Tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse! |last=Fischer |first=Bobby |date=1982 |access-date=March 30, 2022}}</ref><ref name="chun_atlantic">{{cite magazine |author=Chun, Rene |date=December 2002 |title=''Bobby Fischer's pathetic endgame'' |magazine=[[The Atlantic]] |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200212/chun |access-date=January 28, 2014}}</ref>