Bobby Fischer's psychiatric condition

Thank you strngdrvgthng........and yes, of course, people afflicted with emotional/mental problems can have a # of independent, identifiable issues. 

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The anti-semitism would have been related to the personality disorder, and perhaps, issues with his Jewish mother and absentee (biological) father.

Tigerprowl - post #4 - 

+1

Especially the last sentence

Same for <Robk44> and <Jgambit>. Refreshing to have such viewpoints here. 

There was a chess player who was a psychiatrist and a friend of Bobby Fischer who insisted that he was not schizophrenic. 

There is no evidence that Bobby suffered from a developmental disorder. 

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                  Lawdog;  your right about Bobby's friend the psychiatrist. In his latter years, he was incresingly scared about seeing a doctor. If he had, his ailments could have been found before they were terminal.

Chess players see Bobby Fischer as intelligent.  Non-chess players see him as socially awkward.  He was neither.  Both groups are viewing him through their own lens.  The correct assessment of Fischer is that he was a lone wolf in search of mastodons to take down.  So don't listen to a mastodon's opinion of him.

Sometimes an asshole is just an asshole.

Sure, maybe Hitler had aspergers too.

Of course the mastodon will still give its opinion.

Surely you arent  comparing Fischer to Hitler ?  

What I gather it sounds like the perfect mix to become a great chessplayer : Asperger's for the focus, obsession and memory; paranoid schizofrenia for the creativity; and mano-depressivity for the high accomplishment and work rate in the manic phases.

It might make you unsuitable for any social interaction, but chess (or math), hell yeah :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

                 WELL ???   They both share the socially arkward thing.

" affinity for (the innocence of) animals," cant remember where I read this, but apparently he loved to torture insects, so much so that the person who said it also mentioned being frightened of Bobby. Does anyone else know what Im thinking of? I think he was antisocial and OCD.

                  That's the 1st I ever heard he tortured small insects. "affinity for the innocence of animals" means you love them, not hurt them.

Anti-semitism has worked so much evil in the world that it is hard to forgive, or just put down to mental illness.

That said Bobby was a sad figure in his latter years not a scary or despicable one.

He did, though, have a knack for finding people who were on his side, eventually including the whole of Iceland. And that was quite heart warming.

'affinity for the innocence of animals' does not mean you love them. It means you are drawn to this aspect of animals.

Many child molesters have an affinity for the innocence of children.

FOR THOSE WHO CHOOSE NOT TO READ PROPERLY, I DID NOT JUST SAY FISCHER WAS A CHILD MOLESTOR.

His anti-semitism wasn't just something that came later in his life though. Donner said that the Fischer of the first years of the 1960s "idolized Hitler and read everything about him that he could lay his hands on. He also championed a brand of anti-semitism that could only be thought up by a mind completely cut off from reality".