Nice pic.! Fischer was a stickler on chess pieces & boards. It had to meet his approval or he would not play. This could have been a Psyops by Fischer to rattle his opponent though. Fischer could play & win with a Plastic Hasbro chess set if he had too.
Bobby and his Dubrovnik
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His tie is really crazy.
9kick9 wrote:
Fischer was a stickler on chess pieces & boards. It had to meet his approval or he would not play.
Not really. He objected to the set up at the '72 match but then so too did Spassky, if I remember right. Until then, I don't know of any game where he objected to the pieces or board, and there are plenty of pictures of him playing matches on cheap sets. He often used a cheap pocket set for analysis.
After '72 he set all kinds of conditions but again I don't think he particularly cared much about the pieces and boards as long as they weren't out of proportion. (The reason for the '72 objection.) The set may not even have been a condition for playing Karpov.
Here's my favorite pic of Bobby with his Dubrovnik
May 6, 2015
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Love that pic, Mike!
goodknightmike wrote:
Here's my favorite pic of Bobby with his Dubrovnik
Yep... great pic Mike.! I have never seen that one before... Real old style type lamp.
May 6, 2015
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Yes Mike, that's a great picture that I have not seen either.
Notice the edge of the vinyl board, how it is wrinkled or folded up. I remember getting my first board and solid plastic set in 1970. The vinyl board had no cloth backing as they had when I got back into the game in 1980 to now and would wrinkle, fold and otherwise warp.
I remember taking that board and set to my dorm room in optometry school and it was always a wavy game.
May 6, 2015
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lisa_zhang_tok wrote:
His tie is really crazy.
It was the 70's :) If you think that was crazy you should have seen the leisure suits and platform shoes lol
May 6, 2015
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I think Bobby dressed pretty well. I like pictures in which he smiles, as it seems he's found respite from his demons, however fleeting.
Eyechess wrote:
Yes Mike, that's a great picture that I have not seen either.
Notice the edge of the vinyl board, how it is wrinkled or folded up. I remember getting my first board and solid plastic set in 1970. The vinyl board had no cloth backing as they had when I got back into the game in 1980 to now and would wrinkle, fold and otherwise warp.
I remember taking that board and set to my dorm room in optometry school and it was always a wavy game.
Yeah Ron, I too remember playing on those obnoxious wrinkled vinyl boards in the 70s. I remedied the problem with a nice folding Linen board I got from Chess Digest Magazine and Ken Smith.
I think the Windsor sets Fischer was pictured with over the years were club sets and probably not his own set . It would be interesting to know what sets he actually did like/own as he came up through the ranks . I have heard it said that Capablanca didnt actually own a chess set but I simply do not believe that .
May 7, 2015
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Doing some research, the photo I initially posted was taken by the legendary Life Magazine photographer Harry Benson, who covered three stories on Fischer for the magazine. Many of his pictures are compiled in a book Benson authored. Here are some more of his shots of Bobby and his Dubrovnik, all copyright Harry Benson.
Finally, I'm a proud owner of a complete original set from master Jakopović's Zagreb workshop. For some reason, these are even harder to find than the actual ones from the 1950 Olympiad. Took me two years of hunting.
Stay tuned for video.
-Izmet
Nice one! I wish you health and long life with many hours to enjoy these spectacular pieces.😎
May 18, 2015
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INFORMATIC-COOL ! We say VERY impressive to Jonas. You never fail to amaze us with Dubrovnik history. We also think we see a Garde clock as well next to the board. We never knew at such a "younger age" his obvious early admiration of the Dubrovnik chess sets.
D2_To_D8 wrote:
We never knew at such a "younger age" his obvious early admiration of the Dubrovnik chess sets. But sadly for us, the chair is now empty.
You can’t extrapolate from a posed photo in front of someone else’s set whether he liked the Dubrovnik design then or not. Maybe this was the first time he came across the set. And the chair has been empty since 1972!
I came across this pic and wanted to share it.