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If Fischer and Polgar had a kid....

Fischer would wait until night, take it out to the woods, and run a kitchen knife though it's chest for being Jewish.

Figuring its for the childs own good.

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How about that woman who had a child & claimed that Fischer was the father & they didn't find out the truth (that he wasn't) until dna testing after he was dead? I think she got support from him while he was alive (I think I read that somewhere). It's kind of sad that she tricked him like that. 

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Yeah, google some of that story. By the way HolyFlame, who's Joe? I see you put that in your different posts.

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No doubt our genetics determine everything about ourselves.

I have some doubts, surely there's some room for the contributions of "nurture" in addition to just nature.

If he knew more about real life he could have certainly gotten her pregnant.

Hey, he may not have been the most well rounded individual, but I'd be surprised if this little peice of trivia passed him by.

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Mason Reese. 

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They did didn't they? And he just won the World Championship! haha jk...sad day when he died without an heir to his chess throne.

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If everything were genetics why would I have to teach the baboon to play the fiddle?  Wouldn't he just inately know how?

You know, the same way Bobby Fischer (or perhaps more relevantly, Susan Polgar) required no isntruction to reach his full genetically predisposed potential as a chess player.

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No doubt our genetics determine everything about ourselves.  What if a kid had Bobby and Ms. Polgar as parents?  We know Bobby spent a lot of time with the Polgars.  If he knew more about real life he could have certainly gotten her pregnant. Can you imagine the chess genetics such a kid would have?  What do you think Joe? Elaborate on this subject.

Lol

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Why out of wedlock?  I know it's a stupid manmade label (at least gay vs. straight and European vs. African have a genetic basis, not that it means anything) but it would have to be Mrs.Polgar unless the kid is "illegitimate".

 

 "Fischer would wait until night, take it out to the woods, and run a kitchen knife though it's chest for being Jewish."

 

You mean the very same Fischer who, along with Reshevsky, wanted to delay matches on Saturday until Sundown when the Sabbath ends?  The founders of modern Chess were Jewish, Steinitz and Lasker were Jewish (Lasker even had his wealth unjustly stolen by Nazis forcing him back into tournament practice), Botvinnik was Jewish, Fischer also was, and Boris Gelfand, one of the greatest players of today, is Israeli.  


 

 

 

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If everything were genetics why would I have to teach the baboon to play the fiddle?  Wouldn't he just inately know how?

You know, the same way Bobby Fischer (or perhaps more relevantly, Susan Polgar) required no isntruction to reach his full genetically predisposed potential as a chess player.

He had plenty of talent, maybe even on Carlsen's level, but he taught himself Russian to read Questions of Modern Chess Theory and other books for a reason.  Reuben Fine, author of the classic Basic Chess Endings, was also his psychologist for a time and they would play chess together.  Fischer's mom hoped that Fine continuously defeating him would get him to stop obsessing over chess. 

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