Originally posted by Red NightBecause we have had a few too many outages recently (and yesterday's in particular was a little embarrassing), I don’t want to take the site down without good reason.
So, Russ, how about a couple of minutes of silence for RJF?
If people choose not to play though, that is their choice.
-Russ
Originally posted by RussDidn't realize you were down yesterday.
Because we have had a few too many outages recently (and yesterday's in particular was a little embarrassing), I don’t want to take the site down without good reason.
If people choose not to play though, that is their choice.
-Russ
Probably did some of the forumlodytes some good.
There have been many great American chess players, but perhaps the best were Bobby Fischer and Paul Morphy. In a weird kind of way, both went mad. Morphy is often referred to as "the pride and sorrow of chess," and in a way, so too is Fischer.
As a young boy, I studied the games of Morphy and he was my chess hero. I still use his games as teaching tools to very young kids who are amazed at what he could do on the chessboard. Later as an adult, I carefully followed Fischer in 1972. His games amazed me even more than Morphy's.
However, whereas Morphy was educated as a lawyer too, Fischer was absorbed in chess to the exclusion of everything else. His lonely trials and tribulations against the powerful state-sponsored Russian chess machine did not help his sanity. But he beat them anyway; such was his greatness at the chessboard.
Bobby Fischer, March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008: Requiescat in Pace
