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Posted on 01/18/2008 7:57:08 PM PST by em2vn
One of the world's greatest chess geniuses, Bobby Fischer, has died at the age of 64. A spokesman for Fischer said the former world chess champion passed away in a Reykjavik hospital yesterday. The US-born former world chess champion, who became famous around the world for beating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in 1972, had been seriously ill for some time. Rest in Peace, Bobby
Check mate
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Worshippers of Herbert Armstrong are saying to themselves that Bobby would still be alive had he remained in their cult.
Interesting article on FOXNews.com.
IMO, good riddance.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,323730,00.html
However brilliant he was at chess, he was also a seething America hating moonbat.
HTML is not your friend either, if you want to post links people can click on.
He hated everyone. The main reason he hated the US was the tax laws.
As soon as I heard the announcement I thought, Wow! 64! ... he reached the last square on the board.
Sounds like you’re lazy...cut and paste can do it easy. So, I guess you’re arguing for multiple posts of the same story. OK...we know where you stand.
“Post Reply” is your friend, when it’s directed at the correct person.
Sorry, mate...
Too late. I’m renouncing my citizenship and moving to Iceland.
Please stay...I promise I’ll never mis-post to you again!
The poor guy was a borderline schizophrenic. It sank its claws into him not long after his great moment.
Pitiful that he dragged himself to the scene of his greatest triumph in ‘72 before cashing in.
Dang. I was kind of hoping that they’d make a movie out of this thread starring Ben Kingsley.
Excellent! Can Matthew McConaughey play me?
Sounds like you're ignorant.
I’m too polite to say what you appear to be. But I bet I know what one of those “A”s stands for.
At least we finally know where he is.
Here’s a fun little tidbit from the News.Yahoo website.
He (Fischer) praised the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying, “I want to see the U.S. wiped out,” and described Jews as “thieving, lying bastards.”
I think I discovered the root cause of his personal problems...
In 1982, Fischer published the pamphlet, “I Was Tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse!”, detailing his experiences following his arrest on May 26, 1981
Sources:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_re_eu/obit_fischer_25
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer
Morphy's Law
Simply brilliant
Simply brilliant
Morphy... arguably the strongest player ever. Fischer thought so.
They’ve had Capablanca, Alekhine, Petrosian Memorial Tournaments. Alekhine was very controversial too, collaborated with the Nazis, but was after all originally a Russian so maybe that was covered up because he could serve their propoganda purposes.
Perhaps a Fischer memorial will be held some day and then, maybe again not.
Certainly, they will be held, but to what caliber it might be a big tournament I’m not sure of.
Adams and Jefferson picked their time.
Mark Twain picked his time.
My own Dad picked his time.
Bobby Fischer picked his time too.
And I must say, obviously picked his place as well.
Though a nut job, Mr. Fischer in the early 70’s gave America a reason to be very proud when he went up against the big bad bear and took their most prized trophy, the world chess championship.
It was at least the equivelant of the U.S.A. hockey team winning the gold.
For many year I had the daily AP teletype printouts, on canary yellow in purple ink, of each game’s moves in his contest with Spatsky.
Now that they may be worth something I can’t remember where I stored them.
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