You know they they sometimes make coins in honer of famous people I think they should make one in honer of bobby fischer does anyone agree!?
Bobby Fischer
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Rook666666 wrote:
You know they they sometimes make coins in honer of famous people I think they should make one in honer of bobby fischer does anyone agree!?
Look what you've done! Now everybody is going to go over here and start naming famous people!
THEY MIGHT AS WELL MAKE A HITLER COIN AND DISTRIBUTE IT IN ISREAL. IT WOULD BE THE EXACT SAME THING!!!
*foaming at mouth*
Why???? He was too big of a butt.
and jefferson davis
He was an outlaw by the end of his life, wanted by the US. Therefore, he wouldn't be coined, instead he might end up in the FBI's Most Wanted but Dead list.
Schachgeek wrote:
Hardly think Fischer was a dangerous criminal of the same ilk as Hitler or Manson, more like Fischer would have been a political prisoner but that's beside the point.
Obama has done some crazy stuff since being hired, and Obama DOES play chess so you never know.
In the meantime, it is possible to print your own US postage stamps with Fischer's picture on them. Go here to learn more:
It is a consolation to know that there are level headed Americans!
They call their only world Champion a criminal! He beat Spassky at a time when the Western chess world pissed in their pants when they even thought of the Soivet GMs. He did it all alone. It was a single man against the whole might of the Soiviet Chess Machine!
You call him a Criminal? Disgusting!
eXecute wrote:
He was an outlaw by the end of his life, wanted by the US. Therefore, he wouldn't be coined, instead he might end up in the FBI's Most Wanted but Dead list.
Thou shalt not hold a political view of thy country, eh?
he was the best chess player of all times but not human enough for a coin
Schachgeek wrote:
The "crime" Fischer committed was violating UN sanctions.
I thought only countries could violate UN sanctions. Seems odd.
For countries to abide to UN sanctions, or any other measures decided by the UN, it is required that their citizens do. An appropriate piece of legislation is made by a country to ensure that. Nothing mysterious there.
By playing a match in SR Yugoslavia at the time, Fischer was indirectly giving support to Miloshevic's regime. If it had been an act of a sane person, it would certainly have been immoral.
He was also just playing a game of chess and probably cared less about what was going on there.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53671-2004Jul15.html
In August 1992, the Treasury Department sent Fischer a letter warning him not to go to Yugoslavia to play Spassky for the world class chess match. It explained that U.S. citizens were forbidden to get involved in "business or commercial activities" with Yugoslavia because of its role in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"We consider your presence in Yugoslavia for this purpose to be an exportation of services to Yugoslavia in the sense that the Yugoslav sponsor is benefiting from the use of your name and reputation," the letter said.
Fischer ignored the letter and headed off to Yugoslavia to square off against Spassky. Fischer had surrendered the world championship in 1975 after he refused to defend it against Anatoly Karpov of Russia.
At a news conference in Yugoslavia in September 1992, Fischer held up the letter and spit on it. He went on to beat Spassky and receive $3.3 million.
What a guy...
Yeah you are too young to remember the war here but people were being killed a couple of hours drive away while Fischer was playing "a game of chess" (for millions of dollars).
He violated an executive order by President George H. W. Bush, that's what he spit on.
Perhaps he thought an exception would be made considering he was once champion. However, respect for him was all lost the minute he decided he wouldn't defend his world championship title. All hope was lost.
While his chess was brilliant, and he was a genius at his prime, he threw it all away for what, no one really knows--perhaps his mental illness. To top it off, he decided to say some disgusting things about the United States, even writing a letter to Bin Laden, as if expecting a positive reply. He absolutley lost it.
That's why I said he wouldn't be coined, at least not in America. As far as adored by fans in the US, he still has many, and I'm still a fan of his chess. I was just saying, you can't really coin him.
This was explained numerous times before. Spassky was a citizen of Russia and Russia did not participate in the UN sanctions. Is this really so fuzzy ?
BorgQueen wrote:
Hmmm.... let's see... a choice between playing a great game of chess with the chance of winning 3.3 million or obey some red-taped letter.
Gee. Tough call.
I guess that Fischer wasn't the only chess player who neither knew nor cared about anything else in the world except chess (and maybe money).
BorgQueen wrote:
Atos wrote:
I guess that Fischer wasn't the only chess player who neither knew nor cared about anything else in the world except chess (and maybe money).
Are you suggesting that about me?? Surely there is no need for personal attack here?
I'll admit that I don't care about politics, but I certainly know about and care about a great deal more than just chess ....
Not about you personally let's say, more about the fictional persona created by your post who only cares about playing chess and winning money. It is not clear why Fischer had to play a match then and there after having refused numerous offers for matches for 20 years. I don't think it was about chess, possibly about money, but mostly about his mental illness I think. (Fischer was said to have forgotten thousands of dollars in hotel rooms.) Politically this was a highly damaging action whether or not he was aware of it.
Gonnosuke wrote: +1
With the Cold War over, it was only a matter of time before the US Government began sacrificing their most valuable pawns. Fischer had outlived his usefulness -- the shaft was inevitable.
Seriously? US and European troops were on the ground in the former Yugoslovia trying to keep Milosivich's cronies from massacering women and children while Fischer is in Belgrade being used as a propoganda meat puppet.
His anti-zionism rants were so ludicrous that they defied description, he was a biggot, a mysoginist, and a Holucost deniar. Bobby spent the last 15 years of his life slinking from one hole to another spewing bile from the shadows. He eagerly provided his own shaft.