This is a tribute to the great Robert "Bobby" Fischer.

3 Months late but so be it.

A great chess player, a not so great person.

 

ih8sens wrote:

3 Months late but so be it.

A great chess player, a not so great person.

 

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When you think about ti, he was a very very inspirational person.

Umm... I tend to 'think about it' before I say things.  Fischer certainly didn't 'inspire' me.  Anti-everything just isn't my style.

ih8sens wrote: Umm... I tend to 'think about it' before I say things.  Fischer certainly didn't 'inspire' me.  Anti-everything just isn't my style.

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I Agree

 

 

It's "its."  He was a good player.

tunatin wrote: Apparently Capablanca's gone too.

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ya think????

I do not believe you can judge a person based on a condition of debasement and mental malady out of their control, as was Fischer's.

"Has anyone else got a picture of a cat halfway down their screen?'

 

No. Just a couple of dead flies left over from last summer.

 

May I Suggest, Let Him Rest In Peace!

I agree with ih8sens. He was probably one of the top three greatest chess players of all time, but he was psychotic. And anyone who refuses to believe this obviously hasn't seen him or heard him giving an anti-semitic or anti-american (Also considering the fact that he was both Jewish and American, he was just a hypocritical SOB; that may be harsh but it's true)

Be that as it may, can anyone honestly say that they don't want to be like him, at least in chess ability? 
I think he was a great chess player, but a terrible person.  Hey, it doesn't stop me from admiring him!

CHEZED wrote: ih8sens wrote: Umm... I tend to 'think about it' before I say things.  Fischer certainly didn't 'inspire' me.  Anti-everything just isn't my style.

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I Agree

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I also agree. 

MayTheHorseBeWithYou wrote:

I agree with ih8sens. He was probably one of the top three greatest chess players of all time, but he was psychotic. And anyone who refuses to believe this obviously hasn't seen him or heard him giving an anti-semitic or anti-american (Also considering the fact that he was both Jewish and American, he was just a hypocritical SOB; that may be harsh but it's true)

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 I also agree with this.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest chess player of all times.He will always be idol to so many players all around the world;beginners,talented,promising kids,titled players... I don't belive he was bad or mad man.All what Bobby done in chess is amazing.Because of him chess become much more popular. The real negative player in all this is America.

America didn't appreciation him enough.Sanctions which American's goverment gave to him afther match in Sv.Stefan in Yugoslavia is ridicilous.I can't find nothing positive in American's history,I only know for American's crims in Vietnam,Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagassaki,politic isolation,Irak,   America was 200 years magnet of Europe and that's all.

Amen 

C'mon people - let's get this back on topic - chess playing cats.

 

 Let me see Bobby was a good player,I think we can all agree Fischer was much much more then a good player and as for him probably being one of the top 3 players well duh being the greatest player ever i guess would put you in the top 3.

Lol.. I just realized something...

My Grampa's name (took me a while to find out, everyone calls him Grandpa)

... Robert James Fader!

same age...

lol that's awesome. 

Bobby Fischer was right about America, wrong with everything else. Still one of the greatest.