Summing up Bobby Fischer:
1. he displayed signs of being mentally ill in the latter part of his life;
2. he was anti-Semitic in an era when many Holocaust survivors are still alive;
3. he was by most accounts an arrogant SOB who, by his own admission, loved to see his opponents' egos crushed;
4. his own biographer descibed him as 'mean-spirited';
5. he was possibly the best player the world has ever seen at one particular board game.
make of that what you will.
Originally posted by Iron Monkeywhy not also add that he was jewish . . . .
Summing up Bobby Fischer:
1. he displayed signs of being mentally ill in the latter part of his life;
2. he was anti-Semitic in an era when many Holocaust survivors are still alive;
3. he was by most accounts an arrogant SOB who, by his own admission, loved to see his opponents' egos crushed;
4. his own biographer descibed him as 'mean-spirited';
...[text shortened]... t player the world has ever seen at one particular board game.
make of that what you will.
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyYup, nice point, pitty instead of scorn.
Vincent van Gogh, Ezra Pound, Albert Einstein, Elvis Presley and other equally fascinating figures who preceeded him.
However, I don't see him in the same bag as, e.g. Einstein.
The fact that somebody was damn good in a board game
(chess is nothing else but that, despite how much you love it or I love
it) gives him no special place in humankind other than a nice
mention in specialized books or encyclopedias.
People keep dying of cancer and AIDS and world hunger still is a
major problem. Fischer changed nothing of that or he did not
develop a chemical weapon that will change the face of earth, or
nothing like that.
Einstein changed the direction of humankind. Fischer was nothing
else than a damn good chess player and a clown. Period.
Originally posted by SeitseYou reinforce the key point... 'imbalanced muscle bound freaks'.
Yup, nice point, pitty instead of scorn.
However, I don't see him in the same bag as, e.g. Einstein.
The fact that somebody was damn good in a board game
(chess is nothing else but that, despite how much you love it or I love
it) gives him no special place in humankind other than a nice
mention in specialized books or encyclopedias.
People keep d ...[text shortened]... tion of humankind. Fischer was nothing
else than a damn good chess player and a clown. Period.
Bobby was unable to find his way home on a NYC bus, while Albert's
cognitive flights into the clouds caused him to forgot to wear socks.
"In the same bag" only in the categorical sense that both geniuses
functioned within an awfully narrow range of 'limited effective scope'.
Neither their intrinsic contributions nor their liabilities were in view.