AndyClifton wrote:
JimmyJohnson wrote:
First of all I will answer who was the stronger player.
Well, thank God (cased closed).
Nobody can argue against a Nascar driver.
Wht Bobby Fischer would have beaten Kasparov.
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Especially one who's also a head coach.
And an owner (also a fast food restaurant).
I'm just glad his first name isn't Ray (although looking back over his post, maybe it is)...
That's the "You can call me Ray" guy btw (for all you youthful little goofs).
_yiquan_ wrote:
a week or two after that happened I off-handedly made a comment to someone along the lines of "what if they knew about it but didn't do anything"? it was awkward. I don't know something wasn't sitting right with me then and still isn't really. too many questions unanswered.
a couple months later I was with a bunch of friends and one of them said to another with a look in his eye "but you do know that there are people running around barefoot in caves there that hate us and could do this, right?". I knew what he was getting at as did the person to whom he was speaking (who replied "oh yeah, of course" in a certain tone) but I'm not sure if everyone else in the room did. that also was strange.
You mean "us" in Romania? Or Brazil? Or where? Pardon for the interruption, I just got here and don't know to what you're referring anyway. Carry on.
Bobby Fischer had the opportunity (in his prime) to face Karpov...and he refused. Many don't know this, but later on he was approached by both Karpov and Kasparov to play them...he also refused. The point is Bobby Fischer (for whatever reason) did not want to play anyone after winning the WCC...and yes, I think less of him as a player because of this...you just can't be the best if you refuse to play the competition.
Does it matter? Let us just remember all Bobby Fischer did for Chess, enjoy all the great games he left for us to enjoy and stop asking questions that can have no answer. Let the man rest in peace!
Oops, looks like there's another paternity suit...
jesterville wrote:
Bobby Fischer had the opportunity (in his prime) to face Karpov...and he refused. Many don't know this, but later on he was approached by both Karpov and Kasparov to play them...he also refused. The point is Bobby Fischer (for whatever reason) did not want to play anyone after winning the WCC...and yes, I think less of him as a player because of this...you just can't be the best if you refuse to play the competition.
Reminds me of the Mayweather-Pacquiao rifts
Honestly, we will never know- they never played each other!
jesterville wrote:
Bobby Fischer had the opportunity (in his prime) to face Karpov...and he refused. Many don't know this, but later on he was approached by both Karpov and Kasparov to play them...he also refused. The point is Bobby Fischer (for whatever reason) did not want to play anyone after winning the WCC...and yes, I think less of him as a player because of this...you just can't be the best if you refuse to play the competition.
Bobby declined the match because of the tournament conditions he wanted- FIDE did not meet all of the conditions in which he would play the match.
In 1992, Fischer was playing at about 2550 strength and Kasparov was playing at about 2790 strength.
Peanut34 wrote:
Bobby declined the match because of the tournament conditions he wanted- FIDE did not meet all of the conditions in which he would play the match.
Yeah, apparently he would only agree to play if it was in a war zone.
Peanut34 wrote:
Honestly, we will never know- they never played each other!
Wow, this guy's no forum fun at all.
Fischer would walk in, take one look at the curtains, scream because they were the wrong color, flip over the table with the pieces on it, storm off, and spend the next 30 years insisting he was the "moral" victor in this match.
Besides Fischer, the only person in the world who would privately believe Kasparov lost would be Kasparov, allowing Fischer to throw a tantrum better than he ever could.
Fischer is one up on Kasparov in one area: it took the cops 20 minutes to get the cuffs on him. Only took 30 seconds to get them on Garry.
(Though both managed to bite off a piece of their captors as a souvenir.)
varelse1 wrote:
Fischer is one up on Kasparov in one area: it took the cops 20 minutes to get the cuffs on him. Only took 30 seconds to get them on Garry.
(Though both managed to bite off a piece of their captors as a souvenir.)
There was proof that Garry never bit the police officer
First of all I will answer who was the stronger player.
Well, thank God (case closed).