Bobby Fischer Dies

[Chipstone306]

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNe.../Bobby_Fischer_080118/20080118?hub=TopStories


A quiet footnote i believe in 2008 year book....sad though...Great mind tormented soul...

 

[Andy44]

I had never heard of him until a guy I played chess with at work told me about a movie called "Searching for Bobby Fischer". I watched the movie, and not long after, Fischer emerged from hiding in Phillipines or Japan or someplace.

He's one of those people you want to like, because you admire the way he used his talent to stick it to the communists, but then he fails to live up to the ideal pedestal you've built up for him. Shame to see him go; would've been nice to see him redeem himself.

 

[Director]

Redeem himself for what? He had the brains to figure out what is wrong about America, and the courage to speak out and act on his convictions. He is a true American patriot.

 

[Andy44]

Well, yeah, except for the antisemitism. Nothing patriotic about that.

 

[Director]

So tell us then exactly what is your problem with the first amendment guarantee of freedom of expression. Or is your problem with the constitution itself?

 

[Andy44]

Problem? None at all. Fischer can say whatever he wants, and I'll defend his right to do so. Who's trying to silence his views? Me? I just disagree with them and think them repugnant. This is my right to freedom of conscience. I also think my personal list of "people to emulate" excludes Mr. Fischer based on my assesment of his views. This is also my right.

I wish I could play chess like him. I admire his eccentricity, and the way he used it to annoy the communists. I even admire his defiance of the U.S. government's overreach in telling people what to do outside U.S. borders. And beyond that, my admiration stops.

Fischer has a right to say whatever he wants. He has no right to expect me to agree with any or all of it.

 

[Chipstone306]

Did he just give up playing after the rematch at all or does anyone know if he continued to play to the end as a past time?

 

[Director]

I just wikied it, and it appears he maintained an interest in games, but only sporadically, and casually, with friends. He certainly had a talent for games, it must be his Hungarian physics genealogy. John Nash was another oddball, but he operated at an entirely different mathematical level. Fischer was more 'operational'.

 

[Chipstone306]

His death reminds me of Neil Youngs My My Hey Hey
Its better to burn out then fade away quote...

here is some more info that just came to light

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/19/fischer.game.ap/index.html