In the Candidates’ matches leading up his defeating Boris Spasskyy by a score of 12.5-8.5 in the 1972 World Championship match, Fischer annihilated Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen with a perfect 6-0 score. Former World Champion Tigran Petrosian did a little better...Fisch crushed him with a 6.5-2.5 score.
In 1975, Fischer abdicated his throne to Anatoly Karpov. The prior year FIDE voted in favor of Fischer's 10-win proposal for World Championship matches, but rejected the 9–9 clause as well as the possibility of an unlimited match. In response, Fischer refused to defend his title.
This is just my opinion, but I think Fischer was afraid to face Karpov. I think that because during the 1984 Karpov-Kasparov match for the World Championship, in two interviews with a Philippine radio station, Fischer voiced the opinion that the games were prearranged with the aid of computers. To me this indicates that Fischer understood neither computers nor the games.
The chess programs of that era could not compete with Masters. In a match that took place in February of 1996, the monster computer Deep Blue became the first chess program to win a game against a world champion under regular time controls. Kasparov won three and drew two of the following five games, beating Deep Blue by 4–2 in the match.
At the time of the K-K match in 1984, the SciSys Explorer table top chess program was being sold for under $80 (under $250 today) and it was promised to play at a 1550 level at 40 moves in 2 hours or your money would be refunded.
SARGON was introduced at the 1978 West Coast Computer Fair where it won the first computer chess tournament held strictly for microcomputers, with a score of 5–0. Former World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik played a game against Sargon in 1983 at Hamburg; he won in 37 moves.
Correspondence GM Robin Smith published his Modern Chess Analysis in 2004 and at that time chess engines could still be beaten by Masters.
The point is, Fischer’s claim that the K-K match games, whether prearranges or not, most certainly did not involve any help from computers as Fischer claimed.
In the first New York State Open held in Poughkeepsie over the Labor Day weekend inj 1963, Bnobby Fischer made a clean sweep. Arthur Bisguier, James Sherwin, Joseph Richman and Matthew Green finished behind Fischer in the 58-player field with 5.5-1.5 scores.
Here’s the Fischer-Bisguiser encounter. Fischer’s 26th move was praised as a beautiful winning move, but anybody (say, for instance, me) with a strong chess engine can see it was a lemon.
Robert Fischer–Arthur BisguierC59New York State Open, PoughkeepsiePoughkeepsie, NY USA02.09.1963Stockfish 16
C59: Two Knights Defense 1.e4 e5 2.f3 c6 3.c4 f6 4.g5 d5 5.exd5 a5 6.b5+ c6 7.dxc6 bxc6 8.e2 h6 All standard moves so far. Where should the
N go? Most often it retreats to f3. 9.h3 This is an odd looking move that
dates all the way back to Steinitz and it's odd that it's not a bad one! c5 9...xh3 This gives white the two Bs and the semi-open g-file which he can,
hopefully, use to generate a K-side attack. Therefore, black usually refrains
from taking it, but he need not do so. 10.gxh3 d4 10...c5 is better. 11.0-0 11.g1 turns out to be a mistake. e4 12.f3 xf2+ is winning
for black. 11...0-0 12.c3 b7 13.f3 d6 White should now play 14.d3
with equal chances; taking the offered P gives black the initiative. 14.xc6 c8 15.g2 f5 16.d3 h4 with an active position. 11.0-0 d6 12.d3 d8 13.c3 h4 Taborov,B (2450)-Shianovsky,V (2295) Kiev 2003. The chances are
balanced. 10.0-0 0-0 11.d3 xh3 The temptation is too much; Bisguier was
never afraid of complications. The safe positional option was repositioning
the N with ...Nb7-d6 11...d5 12.c4 xh3 13.cxd5 f5 14.e3 xd5
This interesting position occurred in Socko,M (2462)-Batsiashvili,N (2417)
Plovdiv BUL 2014. Does black have sufficient compensation for the P?
Practically speaking he probably does. 12.gxh3 d7 Now, should white give
back the extra P? 13.f3 A good diagonal for the B and certainly more
active than defending the P. 13.g2 d5 14.c3 ad8 15.xd5 cxd5 16.f4 f6 17.c3 c6 18.a4 Socko,B (2643)-Pavasovic,D (2590) Austria 2009. White has
an active position, but black's is quite solid. 13.g4 is possible. After xg4 14.hxg4 He could also take with the Q. f5 Black has active play, but
the position is technically even. 13...xh3 14.d2 ad8 15.g2 f5
Safer would have been 15...Qe6 16.e1 16.f3 was an interesting
alternative because after xf3 17.xf3 black is tied to the defense of his
c-Pawn and white seizes the initiative. d5 18.b1 d4 19.b4 b7 20.c4 c3 21.b3 xa2 22.b2 xb2 23.xb2 c3 24.xc6 with a promising position. 16...fe8 For his part white has some hope of generating an attack using his
light squared B and the g-file, but for the moment his Q is uncomfortably
positioned opposite black's R. 17.e4 This attacks the N on a5 and enables
him to eliminate black's N on f6 lest it head for f4 via d5. b6 17...xe4
loses a piece. 18.dxe4 g4 19.xa5 18.xf6+ xf6 19.h1 c5 Black could
recentralize his N with ...Nb7-d6, but instead Bisguier prefers to centralize
it on the more active square d4. Actually, not a bad decision at all. The down
side is that it blocks his B. Hiwever, the B may at some point get back into
the game by relocating to c7 from where it attacks h2. 20.c3 20.e4
is more active. d4 21.f3 xf3 22.xf3 with equal chances. 20...c6 21.f4 d4 Bisguier has achieved an active position and has every reason to be
satisfied with his game. His Rs are centralized and the threat is ...Ne2 22.c4 g6 23.c3 The N is just too well placed on d4 and so it has to go. f5
23...Nc2 leads to tactical play that should favor black, but it would require
precise play... something that would be very difficult to do OTB. 24.fxe5
Even though this opens up the e0file and allows black's R to reach the second
rabk, it's a tremendous move by Fischer. 24.e1 looks tempting, but after h5 25.fxe5 g3+ 26.g1 e2+ white comes under a crushing attack. 27.h1 
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