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~~nmdavidb~~

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09 Mar 08

~~nmdavidb~~

I Drank What? ©

I'm With Stupid

Joined: 07 Nov 07
Moves: 2320

09 Mar 08

would have been Bobby's 65th birthday.

Dave

Mad Rook

Joined: 19 Jun 06
Moves: 847

09 Mar 08

Originally posted by nmdavidb
would have been Bobby's 65th birthday.

Dave

An admirable sentiment. But for myself, I'm going to stop counting. He's part of chess history now.

zebano

127.0.0.1

Joined: 27 Oct 05
Moves: 158564

09 Mar 08

Not to be too macabre, but I found it appropriate that he died at the age of 64.

Mad Rook

Joined: 19 Jun 06
Moves: 847

09 Mar 08

Originally posted by zebano
Not to be too macabre, but I found it appropriate that he died at the age of 64.

Yes, that numerological aspect has been noticed by many others. As nuts as Fischer was in parts of his life, I doubt that Fischer was much of a numerologist. Otherwise he probably would have switched to Gothic or Capablanca chess.

gaychessplayer

Joined: 22 Aug 06
Moves: 359

09 Mar 08

I don't believe in numerology. I don't believe in astrology either: we Sagitarrians are too smart to fall for that nonsense!