totally worth ruining.
What could have caused Fischer to Go Crazy?
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3 yrs? The thread title should be changed. Fischer didn't actually GO crazy. He was excentrick, probably skizsophenic, and definitely paranoid. He never hurt anybody. He was jailed twice, to which I say; BRAVO!
Everybody should spend a weekend in the drunk tank. He lost it towards the end, but then again, EVERYBODY loses it towards the end.
chess.com junkies are crazier than Fischer.
Hahahaha, I think that's true ^⨀ᴥ⨀^
he was lucky there was no Internet in those days. the chess.com forums could well have sucked him in real bad.
Well here we go
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All great U.S Chess players go mad! Morphy, Pillsburry, Marshall, Fischer, Nakamura... They're all nuts!
I think it is due to the amount of lead used to weight the chess pieces, and the felt on the bottom that keeps them from scratching the board surface. Felt is made with mercury which also causes madness, hince the expresion "mad as a hatter" because hats are often made with felt. The constant daily handling of chess pieces laced with lead and mercury cause chess players to become as cookoo as a clock. This poisining of the pieces is a conspiracy carried out by an un-holy coalition of Bridge players, Scrabble players, Checker players and Canadians!
Assassin's Creed ideaology belongs in the stone age, not in modern day.
clappison2 wrote:
you should really admit yourself to a mental hospital if you follow religious doctrine or text. apparently chess is "haram" or illegal in islam. stone age idealogy belongs in the stone age, not in the modern day.
Adultery and incest is also apparently "haram" or illegal in islam. You don't have to follow it in the modern day.
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When famous people go crazy, it's often the fame itself that caused it. Popmusic and movies has tons of examples of people going loco to various degrees, because it propels people to a god-like status very fast. And Ficher was famous in a rock star kind of way that I don't think any other chess players achieved.
I guess that when suddenly everyone thinks it extremely important to know what you eat for breakfast, how you tie your shoes and your small random thoughts in general, it does something disturbing to your self image. That you take yourself for "to important", your small crazy ideas that people used to go "shut up dude", suddenly everyone listens in awe because the great man/woman speaks. Must make it hard to sort of find your way in the world when nobody speaks up against you anymore, and also it must feel lonely in a way. In some mental diseases, people cannot tell reality from their own thoughts, and this barrier must be blurred because now your own random small insignificant thought tend to become reality.
Probably he was predispositioned for becoming coo coo, but rock star fame certainy doesnt help.
Bobby-J-Fischer wrote:
Fischer spent his whole life (from seven) striving to perfect and play better Chess .He took to it like a duck to water becoming the Best Chess player in the usa in only seven years from learning the pieces.His focus and drive to win and climb the ladder consumed his life until one day he made it to the top there was nowhere left to climb only to think and reflect on the sacrifice it had cost him to get there.He had no childhood in his past was only tournaments and chess study plus added political pressures on him . Bobby was a recluse he liked his own company and now found himself thrust into the limelight the peoples hero,It all got too much for him then the added pressure of defending his title and the whole world wanting to talk to him,he hid away and they took his title away from him .bobby felt hurt and rejected by the very people that had benefitted from his victory so he spent the last years of his life feeling bitter.resentful and cheated and who can blame him. I choose to remember the Chess player who became a hero to so many and a pioneer for the chess world we know today.
And this is why you need to cultivate more than one thing that defines your self esteem. If your whole sense of self is derived from singing and then you permanently lose your voice, that is just an open door for mental illness. I don't think,he was given much choice to explore the world outside of chess and playing against the Soviet machine, even if had wanted to and been capable of otherwise.
I agree with you Masamune314. However, people who are prone to mental illness tend to find one single subject to completely absorb and cultivate. And, it is said that (some) doctors see this as a "healthy" form of escapism. I am talking of experience because I know such a person.
It might also be that he was in fact under some real threat from the Sovjet Union? It's not so farfetched that they could have thought about offing him, because chess was a thing in the propaganda war, and they'd much prefer a Sovjet guy to win it.
I don't know much about his history. From what I know it doesn't seem like the CIA protected him. I can understand why he was afraid of the USSR though.
wtf??