Originally posted by chessisvanitythey gonna circumcise ya? heehee, they better be careful, there isn't much to work with😀
of course we do.
what?..you thought "jews" were all loving and caring?...lmao.
we take care of our own.
i'm not born jewish. i'm a lowly convert in process.
but my wife and her family is.
Well put English Tal and Coquette, I couldn't agree with you both more.
To those bent on attacking him over his politics and anti-PC opinions, its worth keeping some perspective. First he was severely mentally ill, there's no doubt or dispute over that, and therefore his ravings were just that. Second he neither inspired anyone to commit violence or hate crimes, nor committed any himself. In the end, despite being America's chess hero during the cold war, he was exiled from his own country for the crime of playing a few chess games, and later and outcast and pariah because some idiot gave him a microphone and a chance to vent some understandable hostility and the worst possible time to do it, and in the worst possible way. But such are the ravings of a paranoid mind.
I feel no contempt for Fischer, only pity at what he became toward the end and loss for what he might have been were he not forced to live with the torment of his inner demons.
In any case, his contributions to chess, particularly in the West, far outweigh anything he later said if one exercises only a little empathy perspective. And whether you do, or you don't, his brief political spotlight will be forgotten soon enough while his chess legacy will continue to live on for generations still to come.
Originally posted by scandiumI am not interested in the ramblings of an ill old man. He is only on our radar because of chess. Chess is his legacy.
Well put English Tal and Coquette, I couldn't agree with you both more.
To those bent on attacking him over his politics and anti-PC opinions, its worth keeping some perspective. First he was severely mentally ill, there's no doubt or dispute over that, and therefore his ravings were just that. Second he neither inspired anyone to commit violence or hate ...[text shortened]... n soon enough while his chess legacy will continue to live on for generations still to come.
On that subject alone, some of his quotes, and the quotes of some contempories are a fitting epitaph.
“All I want to do, ever, is just play Chess”
(Bobby Fischer)
“It’s just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something”
(Bobby Fischer)
“You have to have the fighting spirit. You have
to force moves and take chances”
(Bobby Fischer)
“Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares”
(Miguel Najdorf)
“Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents”
(Yuri Balashov)
“You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I
was going to lose” --on playing against Fischer
(Andrew Soltis)
“It began to feel as though you were playing against Chess itself”
--on playing against Robert Fischer
(Walter Shipman)
“When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose.
It is a question if you survive”
(Boris Spassky)
“In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage
is as good a being a Queen ahead”
(Isaac Kashdan)
“Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity
walking the face of this earth”
(Yasser Seirawan)
“Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone”
(Miguel Najdorf)
“By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries),
I consider him the greatest world champion”
(Garry Kasparov)
“Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position
which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening”
(Mikhail Tal)
“No other master has such a terrific will to win. At the board he radiates danger, and even the strongest opponents tend to freeze, like rabbits when they smell a panther. Even his weaknesses are dangerous. As white, his opening game is predictable - you can make plans against it - but so strong that your plans almost never work. In the middle game his precision and invention are fabulous, and in the end game you simply cannot beat him”
Enough said 🙂
A beautiful mind departed. I only wish he had documented more of his ideas. Larry Evans said Bobby was afraid people would learn too many of his ideas when he was first writing My 50 Memorable Games. So I don't guess there's much of a chance that he had any secret notebook.
I will miss him again (III., 1972, 1992, 2008). Sixty-four years; sixty-four squares. It's almost sacred. I had thoughts about playing on a FischerBoard.
Originally posted by petrovitchLarry believes that Bobby only allowed the book to be published because Bobby thought the world was coming to an end. (See "This Crazy World of Chess, page 20, by Larry Evans.) I'm simply amazed that Bobby's book ever got published.
A beautiful mind departed. I only wish he had documented more of his ideas. Larry Evans said Bobby was afraid people would learn too many of his ideas when he was first writing My 50 Memorable Games. So I don't guess there's much of a chance that he had any secret notebook.
Also, after reading the details leading up to the 1972 world championship match, I also think it's a minor miracle that the match even took place.
So, while I also wish there were more of Bobby's ideas in the public domain, I guess I should be thankful for the ideas that he did decide to share with the rest of the chess world.
Originally posted by Policestatetom rec
I am not interested in the ramblings of an ill old man. He is only on our radar because of chess. Chess is his legacy.
On that subject alone, some of his quotes, and the quotes of some contempories are a fitting epitaph.
“All I want to do, ever, is just play Chess”
(Bobby Fischer)
“It’s just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to p ...[text shortened]... d invention are fabulous, and in the end game you simply cannot beat him”
Enough said 🙂