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2008-01-18 -Obits-

Chess champ and Jew-hating, anti-American nutcase Bobby Fischer goes titzup

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Posted by Gromomble Oppressor of the Iowans8916 2008-01-18 08:22|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Does Hell have a chess team?

Posted by tu3031 2008-01-18 08:56|| 2008-01-18 08:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Obviously a mad man resulting from a clear breach of Halakha. I blame the Goyim father, Icelandic excile, and a life of staring at chess boards.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-01-18 09:27|| 2008-01-18 09:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Good riddance.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-01-18 09:30|| 2008-01-18 09:30|| Front Page Top

#4 I am glad he is dead. Not popcorn time glad, I did not care about him enough to celebrate. Still one for the plus column.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-01-18 09:47|| 2008-01-18 09:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Checkmate.

Posted by Mike 2008-01-18 09:53|| 2008-01-18 09:53|| Front Page Top

#6 As Mark Twain said (paraphrasing), "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

Posted by KBK 2008-01-18 10:12|| 2008-01-18 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 I whipped Lasker and Capablanca too, this guy was easy.

Posted by Deth">Deth 2008-01-18 10:15|| 2008-01-18 10:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Ok, Fisher was nuts (just like Nimlzovitch, Rubsinstein, Korchnoi, Steitnitz). Nuts but also displeasant as a person. He also was an immmense chess player who at thirteen crushed a Grand Master in one most atonishing games ever played, at fourteen qualified for the interzonal tournament and ended it as one of the eight canbdidates to the title of world champion. And had the system for designating the challenger been fair (the bround robin system allowed the Sovieyt masters to suffer "diplomatic defeats" against other Soviet players who were in better position) he would have had a real chance (at fifteen!) to become the chammenger to the crown. Then followed a series of years of "chess suicides" (he simply walked away from tournaments) and finally in 1971 he qualidied as challenger (after forcing areform of the selction process). He got 19 (nineteen) staright wins aginst world class players (wins are rare between such players, normal result is a draw). He sent two of his opponents (bith in world's top ten) to hospital for psychologic assiatnce after inflicting a 6-0.

And finally he met Spasski. He played quite absurdly in the first game trying to force a win in an obviously drawn game, then he didn't show for second match so he started with a two points handicap. Moreover, everyone of the fifty Soviet grandmlasters was busy preparing opening improvements and, whenn games were postopned, thoroughly analyzing them to give Spasski (a formidable opponent by himself) the best line of play. It is alos highly probable that like for the Korchnoi-Karpov games, the Soviets used spying and psychological destabilization. On his side Fischer had only his trainer. Despite this he lost a single game and won seven with eleven draws. In other words, he crushed Spassski, he crushed trhe fifty grand masters and he crushed Spasski's KGB assiatants.

But then, madeness who was never that far from him, finally caught him. It would have been better he had died in 1972. But he is still one of the two or theree greatest chess players ever and the one who better synthesized the three poles of the game: art, science and fighting.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-01-18 11:57|| 2008-01-18 11:57|| Front Page Top

#9 But I will bet that he didn't play on steroids.....

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-01-18 13:51|| 2008-01-18 13:51|| Front Page Top

#10 I whipped Lasker and Capablanca too, this guy was easy.

Tough talk for someone who got their ass kicked at Twister in that Bergman movie!

Nice historical summary, JFM.

Posted by SteveS 2008-01-18 14:06|| 2008-01-18 14:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Another grave to piss on.

Posted by Icerigger 2008-01-18 15:35|| http://coonlakebeach.com/support_mn_troops.htm]">[http://coonlakebeach.com/support_mn_troops.htm] 2008-01-18 15:35|| Front Page Top

#12 JFM, nice recap. I followed his 1972 games and was glad. I didn't care about the 1992 games because I already knew he would beat Spassky again. That Fischer was a nut to begin with, I think the U.S. shouldn't have started a criminal case against him, cause his obvious defense was he was a nut. It did, however, piss me off that he would use a platform from the PI to to deride the U.S.

Posted by Xenophon 2008-01-18 19:24|| 2008-01-18 19:24|| Front Page Top

#13 Fischer looked like he'd been dead for a couple of weeks already.

Weekend at ~~Bernie's~~ Bobby's?

Posted by Raj 2008-01-18 19:32|| 2008-01-18 19:32|| Front Page Top

#14 BOBBY FISCHER singlehandedly inspired many Amers to learn, play and compete locally and internationally in chess, including many local Guamanians vv forming chess clubs and tournaments.
YEAH, HE WAS OFTEN AN ECCENTRIC BASTARD/RECLUSE BUT WE DIDN'T CARE - IT WAS THE COLD WAR = VIETNAM, THE MAN WAS A CHESS GENIUS, AND HE MADE THE COMMIES SHAKE IN FEAR AS MUCH AS HE HIMSELF CRITICIZED THE ILLS OF AMERICA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-01-18 20:30|| 2008-01-18 20:30|| Front Page Top

#15 Good rundown, JFM.

Folks, you've got to separate the art from the artist.

Yeah, I would bitchslap Fischer for a lot of his antics, but the guy was special. That much is certain.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2008-01-18 22:51|| 2008-01-18 22:51|| Front Page Top

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