Caliphigia wrote:
I think this is intentionaly provoking question, so I would advise all Americans to hold their horses.
Well that's all very well, but how many Americans own horses.
Why do Americans like Bobby Fischer?
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I was trying to take this into an alternative direction. Without a doubt, chess is a fight. But I don't think you understand what the fight is all about. Rationality vs. Empiricism.
Conservatism is a critique of the preservation of value; libralism a critique on its accessability.
There had to be a holocaust to give WWII a good vs. evil myth.
A similar focus could have been made about the pagan/occult roots of the nazi party. Hitler didn't invent anti-semetism. His hatred of the Jews was no different from your hatred of librals.
Hey C2212: thanks for the response.It had a light-hearted touch.The key for chess players is disspassionate analyses.Nimzovitch warns us that we can't be happy about everything all the time.It's time for putting emotions in the box ; embrace the threat and solve it.
he was on drugs while playing , he wouldnt have been able to play a single tour game today. He needed the drugs to function due to his mentall illness
He wasnt on drugs?
No, there's no evidence for this.
Uptight??? Who's uptight!
If he wasn't on drugs ( which he wasn't) he should have been. Maybe he would have been a happier and nicer person. But remember drugs are bad so if you have any get rid of them. Send them to me and I will properly dispose of them. 
It's like asking why Iraqi's living in Iraq prefer Saddam Hussein over U.S. invasion/occupation.
dannyhume wrote:
It's like asking why Iraqi's living in Iraq prefer Saddam Hussein over U.S. invasion/occupation.
Stockholm syndrome?
Well if he was offered drugs for his illness, he would have called Doctors JEWS and killers for attempting to "murder" Fischer.
Drugs. What a red herring. People who haven't done drugs shouldn't spout off about them.
orthodude wrote:
Drugs. What a red herring. People who haven't done drugs shouldn't spout off about them.
My grandmother used to smoke red herrings - but she never injected them.
Americans like Fischer first because he was a consumate artist of the chess board, but also because his ascendancy to the world championship seemed to embody an ethic of individual effort and individual genius -- especially in contrast to the more collectivist Soviet approach to chess. Many Americans are willing to forgive Fischer's outlandishness because they don't really expect great artists to also be outstanding exemplars of morality and sensibility in the first place. Consequently, many Americans are inclined to view Fischer's opinions as just that -- mere opinions, rather than as indelible stains on his legacy and constributions to chess.
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Very Good reply Eric! I totally agree! You are one of the few that post here has real meaning, and not personal prejudice attacks against a great man! Thank you!
GhostNight wrote:
Very Good reply Eric! I totally agree! You are one of the few that post here has real meaning, and not personal prejudice attacks against a great man! Thank you!
In other words..."I agree with you" (heehee!).
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GhostNight wrote:
Very Good reply Eric! I totally agree! You are one of the few that post here has real meaning, and not personal prejudice attacks against a great man! Thank you!
"Great man", my butt
How about "Great butt, my man!"
Ha ha I get it there was Erasums,foe of Luther,first professional writer,and there's you brasmus. Answer me this clever fellow, was Fischer mad or was he a fool? Is madness just foolishness or visa versa?