I'm joining this a bit late, but frankly, Ron, the obits for Fischer that I read seemed to me to offer a reasonable balance between acknowledging his incredible strengths as a chess player and his painful flaws as an inadequate human being and self-hating Jewish anti-Semite.

Fischer attended the same high school I did: Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School. He not only dropped out at 16 but also trashed the school in the city's press, a fact for which some at least of those of us who followed him into those venerable classrooms idolized him.