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RIP Bobby Fischer

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Originally posted by Red Night
The Game of the Century:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008361

Fischer v. D. Byrne
Fischer was 13 at the time!!

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Originally posted by inthegreenroom
Nobody knows why Fischer said the things he said about the USA, about the (supposed)terrorist attacks.
Only Fischer knows why he said that.
He thinks so far ahead...you can only sit back and just be amazed.
Maybe he knows that it was our own corrupt government.
Maybe he was just a little crazy.
But there is no doubt that he is at the top of the l ...[text shortened]... 0 years
then comes back in 1992 to win again!
He's playing chess right now somewhere.
R.I.P.
"He's playing chess right now somewhere."


Great single sentence eulogy, greenroom...

and enjoying the ultimate promotion.

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"He's playing chess right now somewhere."


Great single sentence eulogy, greenroom...

and enjoying the ultimate promotion.
Ya, that's not trite at all.

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Originally posted by Red Night
The Game of the Century:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008361

Fischer v. D. Byrne
Wow! Great game!

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Originally posted by SnowDog
He mighta said some hellish things, but he could play like hell too. Bobby, you made many memorable contributions to the game, and proved to be a first-rate teacher, player, and theoretician. May he rest in peace.


RIP 1943 - 2008
Good Luck BF, Hope your rest is peaceful.

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Originally posted by Rapidfyre
Good Luck BF, Hope your rest is peaceful.
Somehow I doubt it.



Bobby got some 'splaining to do to the man upstairs.

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Originally posted by snowblind2
Bobby Fischer was to chess what Elvis was to pop music. As John Lennon noted, "Before Elvis there was nothin'."

RIP
Actually he was more like the John McEnroe of chess.

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RIP Bobby you were a true genius.

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Originally posted by Sam The Sham
Somehow I doubt it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DbtWuwQX8Is

Bobby got some 'splaining to do to the man upstairs.
people with mental illness, I believe, are given a pass. They are not in there right mind. In most country's it is a legitamate defense against murder charges, so why do we hold them accountable for everything else they do?

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Originally posted by darvlay
Ya, that's not trite at all.
Guess friends may come and go, but enemies seem to accumulate.

You disagree, fine. You have some unmet recognition need requiring

urgent dismissal of a genuine sentiment publically as 'trite', okay...

but lack of restraint on the day of HIS passing makes it all about YOU.

The thread's focus is the loss of Bobby Fischer, not Grampy or Darvlay!

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Originally posted by darvlay
Wow! Great game!
It is interesting that Byrne played it out. Makes it more pretty.

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Guess friends may come and go, but enemies seem to accumulate.

You disagree, fine. You have some unmet recognition need requiring

urgent dismissal of a genuine sentiment publically as 'trite', okay...

but lack of restraint on the day of HIS passing makes it all about YOU.

The thread's focus is the loss of Bobby Fischer, not Grampy or Darvlay!
Well said Bobby.

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Guess friends may come and go, but enemies seem to accumulate.
Please don't assume there was anything personal in my assessment of the statement.

As he was in life, Bobby Fischer is still a polarizing figure.

Mephisto2 put it best in the other thread. He left the chess world a long time ago. The only that died today was the anti-semitic and eccentric fool*.



*That part is mine, not Mephisto's

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Originally posted by Red Night
Well said Bobby.

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Surely the kiss of death.

Red, as much as I appreciate your polarizing presence in the forums, I would love to see you, in the spirit of debate, respond to Kirk in the other thread.

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Originally posted by darvlay
Surely the kiss of death.

Red, as much as I appreciate your polarizing presence in the forums, I would love to see you, in the spirit of debate, respond to Kirk in the other thread.
What post are you talking about?