Bobby Fischer - Genius and Madman

Originally posted by Proper Knob
You know i love it when it gets technical. 🙂

Let's use dictionary.com's definition.

1. a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.

2 .a population so related.

3. Anthropology .

a. any of the traditional divisions of humankind, the commonest being the caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro, characterized by supposedly distinctive an ...[text shortened]... he Dutch race.

The Jews fit one of those definitions and mtDNA analysis would back that up.

you know how i feel about this thing my friend, there is one race, the human! with the
exception of the Scots who are descended from the gods. Fischer was probably
Scottish originally, heck we even claim that Barak Obama is practically Scottish!

Originally posted by Polenzia
I watched this programme with a degree of biased nostalgia because the FisherSpassky match ignited my love for the game. When the match happened I was enthralled not just by the chess, but the clash of ideologies and the mind games surrounding the whole event (and my imagination was captured by RJF, his story, his quest, and his brilliant games) and I cheer tary was about Bobby, but for me the real story was about Boris and how he just wanted to play.

Yes, Fischer himself was astounded at Spasskys sportsmanship, when after the sixth
game, Spassky applauded his play after losing, guy was a gentleman and an
inspiration.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
you know how i feel about this thing my friend, there is one race, the human! with the
exception of the Scots who are descended from the gods. Fischer was probably
Scottish originally, heck we even claim that Barak Obama is practically Scottish!

you know how i feel about this thing my friend, there is one race, the human!

How you 'feel' is irrelevant Rob. Besides, wasn't it one of your mantras that there are three races of peoples to match the three sins of Noah?

Originally posted by Proper Knob
[b]you know how i feel about this thing my friend, there is one race, the human!

How you 'feel' is irrelevant Rob. Besides, wasn't it one of your mantras that there are three races of peoples to match the three sins of Noah?[/b]

As you have highlighted in your text, there were, by anthropological definition, three
types or distinctions of humans based upon certain defining criteria, Caucasian,
Negroid and Mongoloid. That the Bible mentions that Noah, had three sons and that
these plausible demarcations are a consequence of that belongs in spirituality, I myself
prefer to think of there being one race, the human race as you are aware 🙂

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
As you have highlighted in your text, there were, by anthropological definition, three
types or distinctions of humans based upon certain defining criteria, Caucasian,
Negroid and Mongoloid. That the Bible mentions that Noah, had three sons and that
these plausible demarcations are a consequence of that belongs in spirituality, I myself
prefer to think of there being one race, the human race as you are aware 🙂

You're right that belongs in spirituality, it certainly doesn't belong in science. 😉

I like to think of us as one species, anyhow, we successfully managed to derail this thread good and proper.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
you know how i feel about this thing my friend, there is one race, the human! with the
exception of the Scots who are descended from the gods. Fischer was probably
Scottish originally, heck we even claim that Barak Obama is practically Scottish!

Barak Obama is Irish. It was O'Bama before his family left the old country for the New World and lost the apostrophe.

Originally posted by Paul Leggett
Barak Obama is Irish. It was O'Bama before his family left the old country for the New World and lost the apostrophe.

Turns out that yet another US President will have Scottish ancestry... Barack Obama's
maternal ancestor, Edward FitzRandolph, is said to have emigrated to America in the
17th Century and according to genealogists his ancestry can also be traced to William
the Lion, who ruled Scotland from 1165 to 1214.

http://www.scotster.com/forums/political-news/Scottish-ancestry-Barack-
Obama.112.html

🙂

Originally posted by Proper Knob
You're right that belongs in spirituality, it certainly doesn't belong in science. 😉

I like to think of us as one species, anyhow, we successfully managed to derail this thread good and proper.

yes indeed, for we are concerned with truth, not that which is merely plausible! 😛

thread hijackers inc.!

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yes indeed, but Fischers Sabbath was not the same as Revshevskys, for Fischer was
not a Jew, but a Christian and that is why he so resented Bradys representation of him
as Jewish in his first book, Profile of a prodigy, for after reading the draft Fischer
asked Brady to amend the appellation which he refused to do, because of what Fischer
perceived as pressure from Jewish publishers. Once again this was an instance in
which Fischer resentment was being in his mind, justified.

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yes its entirely possible and reminiscent of his opinion of the European colonisation of
America as amounting to the same thing,, genocide on a massive scale.