Fischer had no gamesmanship

Show me another 15 year old kid who has played in the Candidates Tournament. If the elo rating system had been in place in the early fifties Fischer would have been a grandmaster long before he was 14. He took on the Soviets alone and defeated them alone. He declared he would no longer play in the interzonal after all the cheating in 1962 and and it is only because Pal Benko gave Fischer his spot in the 1971 interzonal that Fischer challenged the Soviets for the title. His 20 game winning streak with no draws against world class competition showed how determined he was in dismantling the cheating Soviet chess machine to go on and claim the title.

No non-Soviet player had been World chess champion since 1949 until 1972 and no non-Soviet player would ever win the FIDE World Title again until 35 years later in 2007. Anyone who thinks Fischer is overrated is a fool.

Many don't know this but Fischer has/had the patent on the clock that adds an increment for each move. We all use this time control. He could've been great at anything he chose but he chose chess. Thank you Bobby Fischer.

Magnus was 15 when he first qualified for the Candidates. Fischer was actually 14 when he did.

I also believe fischer did cheat the playing in the first match and last match's doesn't fit his playing

I agree to this post I also believe he did use cheating method as his blunder and poor game doesn't match the games after cameras are off and after game 2 I do believe Fischer did cheat not only manipulate

Fischer was associated with CIA Operation Stargate -- a fraudulent propaganda program claiming the abilities of 'remote viewing', simply a cover up for government surveillance.

Check out his relationship with Russell Targ.

Right-wing racist propagandists involved in that program aimed to undermine the entire country of Russia with a 'wunderkind'; it was a time when the US military was under the thumb of weapons manufacturers and they were itching to start a war with Russia

Fast forward to 2025, idiots like Hillary Clinton, George Bush, and Donald Trump still hold this stone age viewpoint

Nevermind if psychic abilities are real, I don't contest this as I have met some Russians demonstrating abilities I cannot explain which I do file as 'psychic ability'; I have no other explanation.

I use the term 'hyper-conscious' which may or may not be related to alien technology and the quantum field

Government fraud is rife in 'Murika and his profile fits the model of American racist propaganda

Spassky also could have forfeited back though, how is it unfair

I agree he was obviously using stockfish

 YOU ARE RIGHT HE HAS NO GAMESMANSHIP BECAUSE HE IS DEAD . . .

At the start of the match Fischer was already rated about 125 Elo points higher than any other player in the world.

Fischer don't have any manners and should been whipped out from chess as chess is game of honor ppl not low class like fischer

Hm,,,

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer born, March 9, 1943, passed away, January 17, 2008. He was an Americanchess Grandmaster and the 11th World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. Fischer was also a best-selling chess author.

After ending his competitive career, he proposed a new variant of chess and a modified chess timing system: His idea of adding a time increment after each move is now standard, and his variant Chess960 is gaining in popularity.

Widely considered a "chess legend",at age 13 Fischer won a “brilliancy” that became known as The Game of the Century. Starting at age 14, he played in eight United States Championships, winning each by at least a point. At 15½, he became both the youngest grand master and the youngest Candidate for the World Championship up until that time.

He won the 1963–64 U.S. Championship 11–0, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. In the early 1970s he became the most dominant player in modern history—winning the 1970 Interzonal by a record 3½-point margin and winning 20 consecutive games, including two unprecedented 6–0 sweeps in the Candidates Matches.

According to research by Jeff Sonas, in 1971 Fischer had separated himself from the rest of the world by a larger margin of playing skill than any player since the 1870s.

He became the first official World Chess Federation (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) (FIDE) number one rated chess player in July 1971, and his 54 total months at number one is the third longest of all time.

In 1972, he captured the World Championship from Boris Spassky of the USSR in a match held in Reykjavík, Iceland, that was widely publicized as a Cold War confrontation. The match attracted more worldwide interest than any chess match before or since. In 1975, Fischer declined to defend his title when he could not come to agreement with FIDE over the conditions for the match. He became more reclusive and did not play competitive chess again until 1992, when he won an unofficial rematch against Spassky. The competition was held in Yugoslavia, which was then under a United Nations embargo. This led to a conflict with the U.S. government, which was also seeking income tax from Fischer on his match winnings, and Fischer never returned to his native country.

In his later years, Fischer lived in Hungary, Germany, the Philippines, Japan, and Iceland. During this time he made increasingly anti-American and antisemitic statements, despite his Jewish ancestry.

After his U.S.A. passport was revoked over the Yugoslavia sanctions issue, he was detained by Japanese authorities for nine months in 2004 and 2005 under threat of deportation. In February 2005, Iceland granted him right of residence as a "stateless" alien and issued him a passport. When Japan refused to release him on that basis, Iceland's parliament voted in March 2005 to give him full citizenship. The Japanese authorities then released him to Iceland, where he lived until his death in 2008. HM... NO GAMESMANSHIP ? DID HE NEED ANY.