Reb, if you read the post I quoted, you will see that fyy0r claimed that Fischer wanted Kosteniuk in 1992. My post was sarcasm directed thowards the fact that Kosteniuk was 8 at the time, and that fyy0r obviously made that up.
It was sarcasm directed thowards fyy0r, it was not an attack against Fischer, if you had turned your hero worship down a notch you would have noticed that Reb. Althuogh I have heard claims that Americans have a hard time with sarcasm, so it might not be your fault.
That's your interpretation of what I wrote, and ofcourse it's incorrect. No, ofcourse Fischer doesn't like 8 year olds. His response to Spassky's letter wasn't in 1992, it was over the radio in the Phillipines. Here's the exact quote from the radio interview somewhere early to mid 2000's:
Fischer: I saw it, I didn’t like it. I didn’t like the tone – he was trying to make me sound like a weirdie. And he is begging, asking Bush for mercy? What is this?
Anchor: He said that if you had done something wrong he had done the same and should be put into your cell with you.
Fischer: I don’t want him in my cell! I want a chick in my cell! How about that young chick, what’s her name, what’s that Russian chick, Kosteniuk? This Spassky, he is a very good “frenemy” of mine – a friend and enemy. (Alexandra Kosteniuk, born in 1984, became Woman’s World Champion in 2008.)
Reb, if you read the post I quoted, you will see that fyy0r claimed that Fischer wanted Kosteniuk in 1992. My post was sarcasm directed thowards the fact that Kosteniuk was 8 at the time, and that fyy0r obviously made that up.
When Fischer said it, Kosteniuk was no child.