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Why do Americans like Bobby Fischer?
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This site is for chess players who love the game! Why can't we just accept the fact that Fischer was one of the greatest chess players of all time? Why can't we accept him as that and only that? His likes or dislikes do not have anything to do with the fact that he was a the World's Chess Champion! These posts are getting way off base and nothing to do with chess so let's get back to talking about chess and only chess. Itsn't what this site is all about?
bobyyyy wrote:
SerbianChessStar wrote:
I mean, he hated Americans, even though he was American.
What are Americans thoughts on this?
He didn't hate Americans. He just had a problem with the American government which wanted to throw him in jail for not paying taxes.
I will always be a big fan of Fischer because he was the best chess player in history. Who else could beat candidates for the world championship 6 out of 6 games. It was unheard of before Fischer and I don't see anyone doing that now. Fischer would never agree to a "grandmaster draw". He was not a quitter. He always played to win with both the white and black pieces, whether or not he needed to win. Fischer was a "real" chess player.
There's something about his style that makes his games so interesting. Chess players will be studying his games 1,000 years from now.
He won the world championship at a time when it was thought impossible for anyone to defeat the Soviet Union. And he did it completely on his own.
Fischer more than anyone else before or since made chess popular in America. During his match with Boris Spassky every American was paying attention.
Fischer more than anyone else before and since made playing professional chess lucrative. Before Fischer one million dollars or more for the world championship was unheard of. Now it's normal all thanks to FIscher.
Of course he had some mental problems but who cares? Is that more important than his chess games? No, of course not. A thousand years from now the people studying his brilliant games will not be interested in his strange political views and the other strange stuff. They will just be amazed at his games, and how he makes winning seem inevitable.
Only nitpickers care about Fischer's mental illness. Those nitpickers are boring, and Fischer could have beaten everyone of them with his eyes closed.
Learned to not talk ill of the dead.
Kind of like punching a punching bag.... it can not hit back.
Jan 19, 2013
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royalbishop wrote:
Learned to not talk ill of the dead.
Kind of like punching a punching bag.... it can not hit back.
Darn! There goes all the criticism of anyone in history who is deceased.
And I always thought that speaking ill of the dead was park of the perks of being alive. Go figure.
royalbishop wrote:
Exactaly like punching a punching bag.... it was custom made for just such a purpose.
Fixed
Whatever happened to "booby fischer" Every time I read this topic's title I think of "booby fischer" I think the title should be changed.
Dead on, trysts.
wafflemaster springs the booby trap.
Jan 19, 2013
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Next time I say something embarrassing I'll just kill myself for the respect that goes with it.
Interesting variation there, trysts--Bobby never tried that one.
Jan 19, 2013
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I guess geniuses are too busy being geniuses to see the benefits of post-mortem respect
He was not mentally ill. He was a victim of anti-Semitism canards that strikes their propaganda everywhere.
trysts wrote:
I guess geniuses are too busy being geniuses to see the benefits of post-mortem respect
I've just seen on the news that the computer genius that commited suicide got some post mortem respect.....They dropped the charges.
Surely, dropping the charges makes that computer guy feel better in the afterlife.
Perhaps Bobby himself is reading (and laughing) at this thread?
Glad he can't send down (upon us) some lightning bolts.
He knows his critics well, and he's making a list. Make sure you are not on it. 
Do you have a stutter Poppy?
Jan 20, 2013
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Stevie, I attended 2 demonstrations in front of the White House- 1 under Lyyndon Johnson, and 1 under Dick Nixon. I have known communists, but I have never been one. There are some in this country who believe that if don't see the reason for going to war, you are a communist.
Cannot remember how ''conscientious objectors'' were handled in Britain Stevie?
Think they made them dig potatoes or exile to St Kilda or some other remote-outpost??
Some of them still went to war,only they carried strechers instead of a rifle