What a great video. I hadn't seen it before. Fischer was one cool dude, and Dick Cavett was a great talk show host. Thanks very much for posting.
"Are all chess masters egomaniacs?"
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"...they [Russia] saved me the trouble of rejecting them." Hilarious.
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Yeah, I never saw this footage before!
It was his first appearance on the Cavett show where he made the infamous statement about liking to crush a man's ego.
Fischer shambles on to the set the way he typically shambled and immediately starts making excuses why he would resist defending his title....
It was his first appearance on the Cavett show where he made the infamous statement about liking to crush a man's ego.
Fischer shambles on to the set the way he typically shambled and immediately starts making excuses why he would resist defending his title....
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#5
He felt he had crushed Petrosian's ego after the 6th game, when he came into the 7th "looking a little mousey and I took it from there."
Damn
NOBODY crushed Petrosian.
Nobody except Fischer.
Damn
NOBODY crushed Petrosian.
Nobody except Fischer.
Apr 8, 2017
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Who is that woman asking if Fischer "gets something on the side"? Is it Twiggy?
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#9
I think the proportion of egomaniacs to non are nearly the same in any profession and occupation. The problem of false ego is everywhere.
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After being crushed in a match by Fischer, Petrosian wasn't sent into exile by the Soviets, but he played in a big tournament where he beat Spassky.
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In reply to Cavett asking if he agreed with a critic's statement that "the kind of genius that you [Fischer] have is comparable to the great composers.":
"Yeah, there's a little truth to that."
Ha! -- modesty was clearly not in his arsenal.
...but that doesn't mean that he was wrong.
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#13
Fischer: "I'm different. I intend to keep playing for a long time. I intend to be real good for another 30 years."
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urk wrote:
Who is that woman asking if Fischer "gets something on the side"? Is it Twiggy?
Sandy Duncan. I don't know much about her, but i faintly remember seeing her on that show, The Hogan Family, when i was a kid in the late '80s.
Apr 8, 2017
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#15
Fischer has no fkn idea how to answer the question of how many possible chess games there are. Clearly he is not an intellectual chessist.
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Ralph Nader asks if chess could become popular enough to be broadcast on network TV and Fischer immediately starts talking about the money he's been getting.
Says he's reasonable.
Says he's reasonable.
[EDIT: a few weeks after this was posted, one of the main commenters in this thread ('urk') was banned/erased from the site, along with his numerous comments here and elsewhere...and, just in case that amount of butchering of this post wasn't sufficient enough, the embedded video was removed from YouTube and thus disappeared from here as well.]
Bobby Fischer: "This is true. It does attract an egocentric crowd."
This is a(n apparently 'new') video that was recently published of Fischer appearing on The Dick Cavett Show (originally airing in early January, 1972), discussing, among other things, his upcoming match against Boris Spassky.
One highlight is when a young Ralph Nader (another guest on the show -- i barely recognized him) sneaks in the question, "When do you think you'll reach your peak, in terms of age?" Fischer's reply: "Well, I'm different..."
[The 'egomaniacs' question, posed by another guest, Sandy Duncan, reading from Cavett's notes, occurs at about the 12:30-mark. The Nader question begins at about the 11:40-mark.]
The original article where i discovered this:
http://en.chessbase.com/post/bobby-fischer-on-the-dick-cavett-show
(Also, i just noticed that chess.com member superposition76 posted a link to this video yesterday in this forum, but failed to embed the video, which might be why it hasn't gained much traction as of yet. So, a h/t to him.)