Yet in popular culture TL players are often portrayed as lunatics.
They are? Where?
Yet in popular culture TL players are often portrayed as lunatics.
They are? Where?
How are they portrayed as lunatics? They're only "portrayed" as crazy when they act crazy, like Bobby. People starting threads based on assumptions that aren't even supported by general consensus, much less facts, is getting really old.
Top level players ARE lunatics. Along with top level athletes, top level corporate execs, etc etc etc. to be the best you have to be insane. Period.
Bobby Fischer didnt act like crazy. He act accordingly to what happened to him.
Just because his environment provided the foundation to his eccentricities doesn't mean he wasn't acting crazy. The government spying on him, while true, drove him into madness. Even legitimate paranoia can make you crazy.
I wouldn't suppose modern TL players are susceptible to serious MHP.