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luis3141 wrote:
He is wasted!
i think big chucky is always wasted! i also believe that he takes psych meds-or needs to take psych meds! he howls at the moon when he loses a game, uncontrolable outbursts of anger where he punches and kicks hard objects, he talks to himself, stares blankly at the wall or ceiling and its said that he lives on "planet ivanchuck" i love the guy and i dont care one way or the other if hes on drugs or needs them! CHUCKY FOR WORLD CHAMPION!!
god this is a great thread...ill post more when i get to my home pc thanks guys and girls keep em coming
Albin Planinc
he has third eye
I have only the "standard fare," but here they are:
Thanks, hadn't seen the first two. There is a beautiful shot of Nona in the Fred Wilson book I referenced earlier but I've yet to see this photograph online unfortunately.
Veselin Topalov. Very intimidating here.
Beer Chess
Rybka
The May 1964 Chess Life magazine ran a photo of a Polish dance company, and implied that one of the festively clad, jumping performers was Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer March 31 1972 "I'm gonna knock you out. Momma said knock you out."
nice pics! thanks for posting theTal's image, Kupov
Matulovich-Larsen and Larsen, from Palma de Mallorca Interzonal 1970.
Reshevsky working the pocket set at the Palma Interzonal.
Portisch-Huebner and Smyslov-Portisch, Palma Interzonal 1970.
This guy hangs out in coffee shops all over Northern Illinios...
he is related to the cookie monster
Klaus Junge, who died at the very end of WW2, is one of those "what might have beens." He was good enough to have beaten Alekhine at age 18. Hubner called Junge the greatest German chess talent in the 20th century.
(1960) Regina Fischer picketing the White House and demanding a public accounting of the American Chess Federation's finances and raising support for sending a U.S. team to the Chess Olympics in Leipzig, East Germany.
“...she did have an impact upon the chess establishment that can still be felt, and she may even have given our Olympic team a key push towards Leipzig.” (Bobby Fischer, Profile of a Prodigy by Frank Brady, pp.36-37
It is amazing how brilliant Fischer looks when he was in his prime