Bobby Fischer Found

[Phat Mack]

Despite being a Yankees fan, you manage to come up with some perfect lines:

But he's wanted for playing a chess match? This sounds like something from an early Woody Allen movie.

Calm down, Andy. Have a chocolate bar and a cigarette.

[BassMasterK]

Thanks for the link, that was a very good article.

[Dynasty]

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But he's wanted for playing a chess match?

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Andy, the Fischer-Spassky rematch was a huge event. Chess isn't big in the U.S. But, it even got press attention here. In other nations, it was the big international sporting event of the time, especially since Fischer hadn't played in two decades.

Yugoslavia (was it Yugoslavia, I get confused over the names sometimes with the break-up) was under substantial international economic sanctions. Yet, they held a major international sporting event and the government brought in substantial funds by doing so. I'm sure that money wasn't put to very good use.

I suspect that if you found out that the "Enron Games" had been held in Yugoslavia at the same time, you would be much more interested in seeing a prosecution.

[vulturesrow]

It is sad that one of the most brilliant minds in a game that I rate a hair behing poker in my personal favorites, has come to this.

[Duke]

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My penis is currently 14 1/8", I can run the 40 in 3.5 secs and my craps measure some 2m long and 17 MT.

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My penis is 3.5" long, I run the 40 in 14.125s, and I have no idea what a crap is - or what an MT is.

~D

[MicroBob]

i first saw this mentioned on CNN-headline news this morning. they showed video of the 1992 Fischer-Spassky match....but the portion of the video they were showing had a close-up of Spassky. you never saw Fischer...weird.
i suspect that whoever edited the video didnt realize they were showing Spassky and not Fischer.

amazing when compared with the massive rock-star type popularity Fischer received in 1972 when he beat 'those evil soviets' at their national game.
fischer was on the cover of Time Magazine...started the chess boom in this country (which i am a product of...my Dad taught me to play in 1975 when i was 4) and around the world congress even passed some sort of 'Bobby Fischer is a national hero' legislation or something like that and he met Richard Nixon.

now....when it's mentioned on the news that he's been found they show Boris Spassky and not Fischer.
my how times have changed.

[MicroBob]

an amazing article on bobby's life.
thanks for the link andy

obviously most people disagree with most of bobby's outlandish statements....
but there was one rather offensive quote that i do happen to agree with...


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especially since he referred to George W. Bush during one of his radio interviews as "borderline retarded."

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[Dynasty]

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they showed video of the 1992 Fischer-Spassky match....but the portion of the video they were showing had a close-up of Spassky. you never saw Fischer...weird.

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Are you sure? Fischer looks a lot different than he did in 1972. Specifically, he's heavier and bald.

[Duke]

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I for one am rated 2300 and beat my first master in a tournament when I was 17.

Oh.. I bench 275... only 6 sets of 15 reps.. I haven't maxed yet.

My SAT score was well above 1590

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I don't get it.

Some people gauge their skill in certain activities compared to the best in the world. Some people compare themselves to their parents, and after beating daddy for the first time in checkers they think they're good. Some people actually are among the best in the world at what they do. Some feel compelled to lie to say that they are the best in the world.

I tend to be in the first group, which is why I suck at everything. The cool thing about that, though, is that aiming for the stars and missing usually gets you higher than you ever would have gotten otherwise.

~D

[MicroBob]

i am ABSOLUTLE 100% certain that the portion of the video they showed this morning around 5a.m. or so on CNN-Headline was Spassky.
Fischer perhaps appears later on the loop...but they had finished reading the story by then thus they cut to the next video to correspond to the next story before you could ever get a close-up of Fischer.

you do see Fischer sitting at the table across from Spassky...but the close-up is definitely Spassky intently studying the board.


i was interested in this match when it was taking place in 1972...i know which one is which.
but i understand your point. you are correct that fischer is borderline unrecognizable from his clean-cut 1960's look.


i also know from personal experience how easy it is to make mistakes in the world that is broadcast-journalism.

CNN is trying to get their stories on as quickly as possible....and likely someone (possibly an intern) just pulled some video from the Spassky-Fischer 1992 match and cut a segment they thought would work well with the story....not realizing they were showing 'the other guy'.