Chess world = adequate loss of intelligence? Well, let's see. He hasn't played a game, written a book, or promoted anything worthy of printing unless you shave your head and live in Idaho commune for how long?
I voted for great things when younger but like many a genius, paranoia struck early enough to dissolve the lasting effects of who could have been.
He was a brilliant chess player, nobody can doubt that, but a ingenious talent cannot fix a twisted soul inlaid in a cold stone heart. When we try to measure his importance to this world, and thus to the human kind, our vision must be wide, seeing not just a brilliant chess player, but a retrograde and hatefull human being.
As a chess player, I say:"Bobby will be remembered", but as a HUMAN BEING, I say:"Go, and don't come back!"
HinManHouse is right. I looked it up. Whats a fact stays a fact. The title of proof is,'
--Bobby Fischer- Self-Hating Jewish Chessmaster--
There are some mind numbingly stupid comments on this board. Do just a LITTLE research on what Fischer did, said, espoused, etc. in his life. Then come back here and we'll have a logical debate about whether or not he was a completely reprehensible human being. He was an anti-semetic, racist, anti-American, arrogant, selfish, bully who just happened to be one of the best players ever of a classic board game. If he had actully shot a Jew while playing a game of chess, would you then agree. He is ON AUDIO TAPE, WHICH IS READILY AVAILABLE saying:
-the holocaust never happened and is an invention of the Jews
-hundred of thousands of Jew "ringleaders" should be machine gunned in mass
I especially find the remarks of geniuses like "Dozy" above offensive....read his post, then substitue "Hitler" where it says "Fischer" and "fraternal organizations" where it says chess......you could have made the same post in 1939 about good old Adolf. You people are scary little chess fanatics.
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In the couple of years leading up to 1972 Fischer increased the size of the chess world exponentially. We had a couple of hundred people in my office and of those at least 30-50 became interested in chess. We had games at lunchtime, as well as before and after hours.
As a result, Australian chess club membership hit an all-time high and interclub competition reached a level that present-day organisers can't hope to emulate. People in and out of the chess world were talking chess -- and if that happened in Oz I can only imagine what it was like in the States and in countries where chess is traditionally played.
One man created a chess renaissance, and that man was Bobby Fischer.
Like most reasonable people I deplored his anti-Semitic, anti-American rantings but I don't envy him the inner torment that took him down that road. When enough time has passed his outbursts will be forgotten, but his games will live as long as chess players are awed by his genius.
Sleep well, Bobby.
"Last option. Brilliant chess does not trump bigotry."
I agree.
I am at the moment reading a book about the now late Bobby Fischer it pulls no punches, "insolent, arrogant, abusive, vain, greedy, vulgar, bigoted, paranoid, obsessive,so perhaps he was, but with chess he had what seems a natural talent, a genius, almost unstoppable, he seems to have brought chess out of the closet and into the open, and with him other great players onto the world stage, thank you Mr Fisher for bringing chess to my attention may you rest in peace.
Bobby Ficsher is dead. But we will see him every time we look at a chess board
may the greatest chess player in the world rest in peace.
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