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BeeKay
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From: North Carolina mountains
Insane since: Dec 2000

posted posted 11-26-2002 18:35

I enjoy chess and, of course, am familiar with Bobby Fischer. However, I didn't know all about his past and his current situation. Here is some fascinating reading for anyone else interested in this once-famous chess champion.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/12/chun.htm

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NoJive
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From: The Land of one Headlight on.
Insane since: May 2001

posted posted 11-26-2002 19:31

Needs professional help I'd say. A few years back I read another article on his downward spiral... this brings me up to date. Thnx. He's likely a savant (sp?) of some description.

Perfect Thunder
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From: Milwaukee
Insane since: Oct 2001

posted posted 11-26-2002 19:51

Yeah, it's pretty tragic. In the interview transcript I read, he was talking about how Jews hate elephants because the elephant's trunk reminds them of an uncircumcised penis. Bobby Fischer == insane.

njuice42
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From: Gig Harbor, WA
Insane since: Feb 2002

posted posted 11-27-2002 05:08

Isn't this kind of thing what makes cliche' ... cliche'? Super genius child chess master grows up to sit outside his shack in the middle of the woods with an automatic weapon screaming at the raccoons because they're Jewish... *shrugs*

I like watching people be insane though, it's funny.

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Suho1004
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From: Seoul, Korea
Insane since: Apr 2002

posted posted 11-27-2002 06:00

Jewish raccoons... hmm.

I have to say that I never knew Bobby Fischer was such a, um, loon. I'm trying hard to feel sorry for him, I really am. It just doesn't seem to be working.

Hold on a sec, let me check something.

*runs over to the cupboards, opens them, and stares for a few seconds*

Yup, just as I thought. I happen to be all out of compassion at the moment.

njuice42
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From: Gig Harbor, WA
Insane since: Feb 2002

posted posted 11-27-2002 07:17

See, Suho? This is why you shouldn't shoot Jewish raccoons before you go shopping. Tsk tsk... *shakes head*

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Jestah
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Long Island, NY
Insane since: Jun 2000

posted posted 11-27-2002 09:01

Personally I think its sad.

It's almost a combination of John Nash and whatever that Brandan Frieser character in that baseball movie. You know, the one with the guy who only played baseball and was incrediable at that, but couldn't do anything else.

Jestah

norm
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From: [s]underwater[/s] under-snow in Juneau
Insane since: Sep 2002

posted posted 11-27-2002 22:14

I almost wish I had not read this article. Bobby Fisher was one of my heros as a kid, I remember following the match in '72. When he won it made me feel like my membership in the USCF was special, that being a chess player was something to be proud of. So many years ago... I guess as an adult, I know that Heros are just people, but somehow that dosen't make this any easier to take.

This is very sad.


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Suho1004
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From: Seoul, Korea
Insane since: Apr 2002

posted posted 11-28-2002 08:33

Yeah, it is sad. I was pretty short on compassion yesterday for a number of reasons, but a couple of pints of Guinness fixed me up.

What's sad about it is not how far he has fallen, but the fact that he obviously needs help (and has needed help for a long time) and he's not going to get it. He's going to continue to deteriorate until he is no more than a shell of his former self. Even more than he is now, I mean.

Rameses Niblik the Third
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posted posted 11-29-2002 11:29

Who the hell is Bobby Fischer?

S^abaal ud T'a johtizuc^ ult'a Fedaro.

Skaarjj
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: :morF
Insane since: May 2000

posted posted 11-30-2002 02:03

Idiot Savant? Well he certainly seems to have the idiot part down pat

Rameses Niblik the Third
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posted posted 11-30-2002 13:32

Hey Skaarjj, nice sig.

S^abaal ud T'a johtizuc^ ult'a Fedaro.

genis
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From: Dallas, TX
Insane since: Aug 2002

posted posted 12-02-2002 06:30

I always wondered if his ability was only in the game of chess, or if it could be displayed across any strategy games, or even sport strategy.

I'd like to see him play a little Starcraft or maybe even old school John Elway's Quarterback.... oh wait, everyone knows the correct strategy on that one.

Rameses Niblik the Third
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posted posted 12-02-2002 11:52

Okay, so he's a chess player. Or a QB. Oh, who cares.



S^abaal ud T'a johtizuc^ult'a Fedaro.

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