https://bobby-fischer-1972.blogspot.com/ The "Anti-American" underbelly was well documented from the 1950's onward, where reporters cited a 10% Soviet population in Iceland, which often spread Anti-American publications. Not only that, but Icelandic government had a secret agreement with U.S. Government to forbid African Americans to serve at the NATO base, and that's only scratching the surface as to the "why" Soviet Union chose this racist haven for the 1972 match.