Today, the 1 year anniversery of Fischer's death, I would like to say thank you to him for his great contributions in chess and for helping to hook me onto this great game along with much of the world.

The world owes you one Robert Fischer

anyone else have something to say about Mr. Fischer (preferably positive)

Yes..one year..Every day i am remembering and working on him at his group as he is still alive!

http://www.chess.com/groups/home/bobby-fischers-group

But would he have given a damn about any of this gratitude or adulation? (I very much doubt it...)

Interesting point tonydal...............I'm sure he would have, at least in his earlier years..............either way I still think appreciation is worthwhile

I don't care about this..For me the point is to learn from him..And that's i am trying to achieve..

He was a good, respectable man! AND a great chess player...

ADK

I didn't even know he passed away. Can someone tell me how he died please. He was my mentor as from the age of about 10. I was 10 in 1973. When I started to learn from books, always Bobby. A few years ago I heard he ended up in a home for mentaly desturbed people. Was that true? I also heard that he started to play all of his best old games over by just writing it down, not touching the chess board. Thanks to Bobby, a good mentor.

Well, he was a great chess player anyway.

He is the true genius of the chess.

by riana
Pietersburg South Africa

riana here are 2 links to Fisher:

1.http://www.newsnet14.com/2008/01/bobby-fischer-chess-genius-and-anti-zionist-dies-in-iceland/

2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer

Bobby had a phenomenal memory could recall all oof the moves played by him and his opponent after the tournament, he did once recited all the games, over 1000 moves the next day in an interview.

In my mind he would have been the perfect canditate to review and add data to chessbase programs.

I bet his mind was working like a computer and likely diong thousands of computations.

He revived the chess game all over the world. 

Wow, you mean there's only one? Someone needs to tell Garry quickly. 

fischer=100 x rybka    

I learned about chess notation and books in 1969.  The next year, Fischer started his incredible streak by winning the last seven (!) games of an Interzonal.  That alone was Hall-of-Fame stuff.  But to win the next thirteen in a row at the Candidates level is just staggering.  Twenty in a row at the Interzonal and Candidates level is just ridiculous.  In GM competition this will never again be remotely challenged, much less approached.  I personally thinkthat this is the single most unapproachable record in all of competitive endeavors, in all of sports.  DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak will fall long before anybody wins 10 games in a row at that level.  Bobby was the best--far better than anyone else in the post-Steinitz era.

Robert James Fischer, one of the greatest heros of the game.

You may want to re-evaluate his life.  Great chess player yes.  Great person...?  I'd say the latter has virtually all of the weighting on one's hero status.

He was pretty awesome, but mysterious.

read about him

he was cool

I think a good comparison would be Ty Cobb in baseball. An awful awful man, but an immortal legend in Baseball. Sometimes you have to take look at only one aspect of what they did on their respective playing fields. I think Bobby Fischer was possibly the best Chess player ever, just by not only his dominence over all players (especially the Russians, who had incredible backing by their government), but also for the sheer brilliance of his games. I think it was sad that he never continued his career, because if he had, he certainly would have been champion well into possibly his 50's. I respect and admire his chess games, but did not respect his very bigoted attitude in his later years. That part of him I will always try to ignore. Fischer & Cobb...great players, terrible people.

Yeah, I like the comparison with Cobb.  And, as with Cobb, fans tend to put blinders on...so baseball allows the guy into the hall of fame, despite the fact that he had an appalling, awful personality...and many chess players revere Fischer, despite his Jewish Nazi cant, because he was adept at pushing pieces of wood around a board.