Mental Health Problems & Top Level Chess

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resaldis64

I wouldn't suppose modern TL players are susceptible to serious MHP.

 

 

kkl10
resaldis64 escreveu:

Yet in popular culture TL players are often portrayed as lunatics.

 

They are? Where?

TRextastic

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.

Nadamisogynist

Acronyms are the way of the future. You are fighting progress. IMHO

BronsteinPawn

Bobby Fischer didnt act like crazy. He act accordingly to what happened to him.

Nadamisogynist

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. 

Nadamisogynist

"It's lonely at the top"

TRextastic
BronsteinPawn wrote:

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.

BronsteinPawn

For me he wasnt crazy. He is my role model. The US spied him when he was a child, and later on 2 fat cops jailed him and forced him to stay nude in a prision cell? I would also wish a plane would crash into the Whitehouse if I were him.