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http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/18/fischer.obit/index.html

In the early seventies, Bobby Fischer triggered a renewed interest in chess. That interest sparked my mother's interest and when I was six, she taught me how to play. I beat her after three games. Unfortunately, that would be the last game I would play until I was seventeen. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I had kept playing from that early age.

Anyhoo... Bobby Fischer was a wacko, but he was a fun wacko. *nod*

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/18/fischer.obit/index.html

In the early seventies, Bobby Fischer triggered a renewed interest in chess. That interest sparked my mother's interest and when I was six, she taught me how to play. I beat her after three games. Unfortunately, that would be the last game I would play until I was seventeen. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I had kept playing from that early age.

Anyhoo... Bobby Fischer was a wacko, but he was a fun wacko. *nod*

Quick! Somebody get a pawn across the board and get him back!


:(

I couldn't believe it. :(
I shall be watching "Searching for Bobby Fischer" this weekend to honor the chess community.

Very sad news indeed.

It was the Fischer-Spassky match which first got me interested in Chess in the early 70's.

May he rest in peace.

Quick! Somebody get a pawn across the board and get him back!


:(

LOQLK4 (Laugh Out to Queen's Loud Knight Four).

I couldn't believe it. :(
I shall be watching "Searching for Bobby Fischer" this weekend to honor the chess community.

A very good film.

Chess was one of the few things my father and I did together...he, too, never played me again after I beat him at age 11. Good times.

Antisemitic fucktard. Good at chess, but an antisemitic fucktard all the same.

64 years, exactly the same number as there are fields on a chessboard, coincidence? I doubt it...

Antisemitic fucktard. Good at chess, but an antisemitic fucktard all the same.

Not even heroes can be exemplars of all things.

HEROES --Jill Sobule

Why are all our heroes so imperfect
Why do they always bring me down
Why are all our heroes so imperfect
The statue in the park has lost his crown

William Faulkner drunk and depressed
Dorothy Parker mean, drunk and depressed
And that guy in Seven Years in Tibet
turned out to be a nazi
The founding fathers all had slaves,
the explorers slaughtered the braves,
The Old Testament God can be so petty

Paul McCartney jealous of John,
even more so now that he's gone
Dylan was so mean to Donovan in that movie
Pablo Picasso cruel to his wives
My favorite poets took their own lives
Orson Welles peaked at 25, ballooned before our eyes
and he sold bad wine

Heard Babe Ruth was full of malice
Lewis Carroll I'm sure did Alice
Plato in the cave with those very young boys
TS Elliott hated Jews, FDR didn't save the Jews
All the French joined the resistance after the war
Raymond Chandler drunk and depressed
Tennessee Williams drunk and depressed
Think I'll just get drunk and depressed.

64 years, exactly the same number as there are fields on a chessboard, coincidence? I doubt it...

Whoa. :eek: I didn't even think about that. Eerily apropos.

Another childhood hero gone :(
My very first post on NSG was a response to someone asking about fianchetto.

Oh, sure, everyone talks about it when chess master's die but who cares about Ferdinand Maack and Raumschach? Am I the only person on NSG who has played Raumschach?

Quick! Somebody get a pawn across the board and get him back!


:(

Are you calling Bobby Fischer a "queen"? He'd kill you for that-- er, he'd hand out insanely ranting tracts denouncing you for that!

poor guy.
As for chess, i never really took it on, i mean the King sits back and lets the queen do all the hard work, while the pawns are sent mindlessly in one direction, i mean if the pawns tried i think in the first few turns create a republic and overthrow their king, then they wouldn't have to fight at all.

Oh, sure, everyone talks about it when chess master's die but who cares about Ferdinand Maack and Raumschach? Am I the only person on NSG who has played Raumschach?

Now you're thinking in three dimensions, while I'm thinking in portals.

This is all about popularity, while chess has been around for centuries and it's athletes are celebrated,... Raumschach have only have been around for only a century and only played and known by a small percentage of people in the world (and that also includes the Trekkies) compared to chess.

Ive been playing chess since I was a kid. Fischer has always been an inspiration to me and most other serious chess players. His politics and life style were a little insane but that kind of thought goes a long with being a true genius. Its too bad hes gone but his contibutions will live on for generations to come. www.knightskewer.com

poor guy.
As for chess, i never really took it on, i mean the King sits back and lets the queen do all the hard work, while the pawns are sent mindlessly in one direction, i mean if the pawns tried i think in the first few turns create a republic and overthrow their king, then they wouldn't have to fight at all.

Not gonna happen. These bishops and knights stick together to support the monarchy.

RIP R. Fisher

Dammit, I've read that somewhere before... it'll come to me...
Pratchett?

poor guy.
As for chess, i never really took it on, i mean the King sits back and lets the queen do all the hard work, while the pawns are sent mindlessly in one direction, i mean if the pawns tried i think in the first few turns create a republic and overthrow their king, then they wouldn't have to fight at all.

One of my favorite quotes:
Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in particular had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks round, the whole board could've been a republic in a dozen moves-Thud!

But really, who is commanding the board of chess if it isn't the king? Is it just two gods fighting.

YES!
I was right!

Goddammit, I wish I knew where my copy of Thud! had gone... :(

Bobby Fischer, substandard human being - legendary chess player. RIP

Renfro and Fischer, who will be the third?

RIP, you certainly turned out to be a whack job, but you were a national hero for a long time too. You are certainly not alone in that category.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/18/fischer.obit/index.html

In the early seventies, Bobby Fischer triggered a renewed interest in chess. That interest sparked my mother's interest and when I was six, she taught me how to play. I beat her after three games. Unfortunately, that would be the last game I would play until I was seventeen. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I had kept playing from that early age.

Anyhoo... Bobby Fischer was a wacko, but he was a fun wacko. *nod*

Your mother would have had to admit she was letting you win to make you feel good.

*Tips a king over*

Do realize that a good part of his dislike towards America comes from the fact that the government prosecuted him after a politically-charged chess game... So, yes, he had reason.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I had kept playing from that early age.
Probably you'd have ended up wrapping yourself in tinfoil, smearing your feces on the walls and posting on weird internet forum sites.

Probably you'd have ended up wrapping yourself in tinfoil, smearing your feces on the walls and posting on weird internet forum sites.
I thought LG already wrapped himself in tinfoil for his pie fights!
And he posts on here, dosen't he?:p

I once had the honor of playing chess against one of the Polgar sisters.

Not surprisingly, I was flattened.

*Tips a king over*

Do realize that a good part of his dislike towards America comes from the fact that the government prosecuted him after a politically-charged chess game... So, yes, he had reason.

His anti-American rants I can understand. Hell, since Bush started allowing torture I've been prone to a few of those as well. Nothing excuses his anti-Semitic rants.

YES!
I was right!

Goddammit, I wish I knew where my copy of Thud! had gone... :(

L-space. Drop by a used bookstore. It will probably turn up there.

His anti-American rants I can understand. Hell, since Bush started allowing torture I've been prone to a few of those as well. Nothing excuses his anti-Semitic rants.
not even having a Jewish mother? ;)

L-space. Drop by a used bookstore. It will probably turn up there.

Yes, most likely.
I wonder whether I'll wander into the Library of UU if I look around long enough?
I wonder whether I'd want to return back to Earth if I did.

not even having a Jewish mother? ;)

That one is so wrong, but feels so right! :D

His anti-American rants I can understand. Hell, since Bush started allowing torture I've been prone to a few of those as well. Nothing excuses his anti-Semitic rants.

Agreed.

But bear in mind that most people dislike him for his remarks against the USA (for, again, wanting to arrest him for not allowing petty politics to meddle with chess) rather than his (truly repulsive) anti-semitism.

Definitely a character but I think his mind went when he got thrown in gaol by the USA.

Anyhoo... Bobby Fischer was a wacko, but he was a fun wacko. *nod*

So a wacko who says September 11th was "wonderful news" is a fun wacko? :confused:

So a wacko who says September 11th was "wonderful news" is a fun wacko? :confused:

As compared to the wackos who actually did it? Yes. *nod*