Thank you Fischer

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17th January 2009, 01:09am
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by minatonamikaze7
Hidden Leaf Village International
Member Since: Jul 2008
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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 Smile

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

17th January 2009, 04:18am
#2
by aristeidis9
Thessaloniki Greece
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 3146

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

17th January 2009, 12:35pm
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by NM tonydal
United States
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 4654

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

17th January 2009, 01:19pm
#4
by minatonamikaze7
Hidden Leaf Village International
Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 1529

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

17th January 2009, 03:41pm
#5
by aristeidis9
Thessaloniki Greece
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 3146
tonydal wrote:

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


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

20th January 2009, 08:32pm
#6
by ADK
Santa Clarita, CA United States
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 16440

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

ADK

21st January 2009, 02:32am
#7
by riana
Pietersburg South Africa
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 45

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.

21st January 2009, 07:07am
#8
by TheGrobe
Calgary Canada
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 4617
ADK wrote:

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

ADK


Well, he was a great chess player anyway.

21st January 2009, 08:33am
#9
by rich
My Home United Kingdom
Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 23137

He is the true genius of the chess.

21st January 2009, 09:22am
#10
by paul211
Canada
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 1846

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. 

21st January 2009, 12:33pm
#11
by NSgenius
Chicago (currently) England
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 248
rich wrote:

He is the true genius of the chess.


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

22nd January 2009, 12:18am
#12
by riana
Pietersburg South Africa
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 45
that's what I was trying to say. you can only learn from a master and it is not a matter of gratitude of adulation but for who he was and what he have done to help others play good. aristeidis9 wrote:
tonydal wrote:

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


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


22nd January 2009, 12:36am
#13
by ashwath
bangalore India
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 1015

fischer=100 x rybka    

22nd January 2009, 01:01am
#14
by dashkee94
Binghamton, NY United States
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 193

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.

6th March 2009, 02:14pm
#15
by k05
vancouver Canada
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 608

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

6th March 2009, 03:31pm
#16
by TheGrobe
Calgary Canada
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 4617

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.

19th April 2009, 09:33am
#17
by chidori
Hidden Leaf Village United States
Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 164

He was pretty awesome, but mysterious.

19th April 2009, 09:48am
#18
by mrhackcomic
Boston United States
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 219

read about him

he was cool

19th April 2009, 09:49am
#19
by Painterroy
Honolulu United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 199

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.

19th April 2009, 07:25pm
#20
by NM tonydal
United States
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 4654

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.

 

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