Bobby Fischer... "The king of infinite space"

I just watched the documentary about Fischer"Anything to win" and I found the story of Bobby's life to be both a great triumph and a great disaster.The revelation that Nemenyi was Bobby's father, in all likelihood ( very striking physical resemblance ), and not Gerhard Fischer goes a long way , in my opinion , to explaining Bobby's animosity towards the Jewish people .Of course noboby should ever condone Bobby's ferocious and hateful anti-semitism but the terrible sense of abandonmnt that Bobby must have felt growing up without a father did affect his emotional development very seriously. 

I suspect Bobby's  mother divulged the truth about Bobby's true parentage one day and this knowledge sufficed to provide a fertile mind with all the fuel needed to expound his anti-semitic outpourings in later life. It could have been much worse ; another american icon :Ted Bundy , was also emotionally devastated by his dubious parental origins and he went on in adulthood to have quite a different mode of expression.

The documentay about Bobby is a fascinating insight into  the mind and nature of a man who is quite possibly the greatest chess player that ever lived... the results Bobby had for the WCC cycle of 1972 candidates matches were quite extraordinary; he beat Taimanov and Larsen 6-0 , 2 unprecedented clean sweeps; He also routed the great  Tigran Petrosian 6.5 to 2.5 , winning the last 4 games and we all know about his crowning glory in his WCC match with Boris Spassky where Bobby psychologically crushed  Spassky and ran out an easy winner.

It's a great shame that Bobby became a recluse when he found that he had no more worlds to conquer but we should remember how greatly his star shone in his time.

 In the documentary , it was said that Bobby ,to paraphrase a philosophical qoute,  found that he was bound in a nutshell for most of his life but in his mind he was" the king of infinite space".

Does anybody know of any other documentaries featuring Bobby Fischer?.

As a society we need to transcend silly man made labels like Jew/Gentile, bastard/"legitimate”, etc.

You are right , if only society could rid itself of all it's predjudices...if only there was a place called Utopia on the map.

Yes i've seen "Anything To Win", it's really good.  I love that expression "the king of infinite space".

The documentary i would heartily recommend is "Bobby Fischer Against The World" (2011, d. Liz Garbus).  There's loads of archive footage, and contemporary interviews with people who knew him.  One thing which caught my interest, and which i found very moving, was a brief piece of film footage of Bobby before one of his matches with Spassky in Iceland - he looked very distressed and extremely vulnerable.  I do think Fischer's achievements are all the more incredible given the mental and emotional vulnerabilities he had to battle with.  You can see it clearly in his face in every piece of film footage.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1777551/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 Yes Bobby had a haunted look about him ; he was quite lonely I  think and all that pressure he had to deal with ...the burden of fighting the cold war  almost single handedly must have been a strain but what compensation he got from his chess. Thx for the link rock n roll woman I'll definitely check it out. 

No we dont.

So in your mind utopia = no prejudice?

                      "The burden of fighting the cold war almost singlehandedly"  What a load of bull-shit!!!   The cold war was fought by soldiers. Bobby played a game, because he never grew up.

No it wasn't.

If you are going to contribute to my thread will you please  try and cut out the profanities . Incidentally for your information, the cold war is so called because it was not a hot war,that is to say a war where soldiers are firing guns at each other.

lol

Yes, this is a great documentary!

Were the Peoples Republic of Utopia to exist , all people would be afforded the same status .Nobody would have authority over another based upon race or colour or gender or religion.In Utopia there would be no envy or jealousy,no greed or violence ...everyone would respect everyone else's humanity and everyone would enjoy loving relationships with a wide circle of friends.This is the blueprint for a suceessful future for the peoples of the world ; however i'm not holding out great hope that it will ever come to pass; I just have this feeling that the self destructive compulsion of mankind is too powerful.

What do you think ?

Both documentaries (Bobby Fischer Anything To Win) & (Bobby Fischer Against The World) are a must see for any Bobby Fischer/Chess fan. I have seen both several times. (Bobby Fischer Anything To Win) is free on YouTube. (Bobby Fischer Against The World) is from HBO and can be seen if you have the app HBO GO and have a subscription with HBO. Or you could probably get the DVD...

                    It took soldiers to guard those weapons, and physically get them into place where they could be launched. It took soldiers to feed the people that run the machine known as DOD. The early days of atomic weapons didn't have a ready hot phone in the white house. Have you seen some of my post?? Your gonna tell me the difference between cold and hot skirmishes?? Besides Vietnam, what was going on in the late 60's and early 70's when Bobby played?? The cuban missle crisis was a nuclear threat.

                  Hey bluestick; what are you basing your disagreement on??

                I've never heard of a hot war. Its either conventional, or nuclear. Did you get that from Google??     "a war where soldiers fire guns at one another".     Is there any other kind of war??   Your just as delutional as the media who covered the Fischer/Spassky match.  Did we win the cold/hot war when we beat the Russians in the Olympics??  Who spent more on war in the 1980's, US or Russia?? Bobby won the GAME, because he called out the Russians for cheating in the candidates match, and he was right. They had been cheating for yrs.

@tkbunny I for one love Shakespeare and Hamlet is my favorite... :)

"He was a man, take him for all in all,

I shall not look upon his like again."

               Now that I've lowered my blood pressure, I think your right. Both are excellent documentaries. I apologize for my language. I'm only doing so because you asked me nicely. If you post any thing else about the military, I'm going to have to ask to see your DD214.

Thx for providing the source of the quote ;it is typically Shakespearian and I agree that Hamlet is his finest work although Macbeth is great as well..."out damn spot,out I say!"