What chess player do you think of when someone talks about chess?

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Avatar of cornbeefhashvili

When I saw this topic, the first thing to pop in my head was a grainy black and white film of Fischer studying chess.

Avatar of EDB123

lol. the first thing i though of was a weird dream where i had my king and two queens versus my opponent's lone king, and couldn't mate him.

Avatar of Ballofwhacks

Hmm... Garry Kasparov

Avatar of BigLew

Paul Morphy, but that is probably b/c I grew up near New Orleans.  

Avatar of FireAndLightz

EDB123, thats called a "nightmare", lol

Avatar of EDB123

a nightmare where i was talking WWII German politics with a guy.

Avatar of Mallet

Boris Spassky. He was too polite, and timid against Bobby Fischer. It cost him dearly in many ways.