Bobby Fischer dead

[REDY]

My uncle admired him as symbol of anti-communism. I dont know much about him, I have saw only todays news and reminded. Well he was strange person, maybe mad genius.

 

[Narz]

Actually, Narz, the laundry list of child stars that end up incredibly screwed up or on drugs is quite long indeed.

I don't doubt it but correlation doesn't imply causality. I don't deny there are many factors in childhood stardom that certainly can screw a kid up though (greedy parents or parents who project their own desire for fame onto the kid, pressure to perform, alienation &/or jealousy from peers, etc.). In Fischer's case, I'd say alot of the issues that later became undeniably & embarassingly clear were incubating insider him before he became famous and that, if he wanted to, he could have used he new found wealth & fame to seek help instead of using it to alienate himself further.

 

[Tasslehoff]

Not interesting at all. He just babbles off in what seems like a drunken rage saying the F word in every sentence, and is denying the holocaust. But, hey since he also accuses the US and Jews of 9/11 then he must be right and his comments deserve our respect, right?

Dammit, there goes all the respect I ever had for him.

 

[Japanrocks12]

A perfect example of fame at a young age having a hugely detrimental effect upon you for the rest of your life.

amen to that. but an american has died. RIP

 

[Nylan]

There is a line between genius and insanity. Bobby straddled it.

 

[GuitarHero]

I thought Bobby Fischer was a musician.

 

[Verge]

Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died.

Checkmate.

 

[GuitarHero]

Checkmate.

And with one word, Verge has made one of the greatest posts in history.

 

[amadeus]

amen to that. but an american has died. RIP

He renounced his citizenship.

 

[Japanrocks12]

He renounced his citizenship.

oh okay, then screw him

 

[Leonel]

There is a line between genius and insanity. Bobby straddled it.

Judging from his anti-semitic remarks and his celebration of 9/11, I'd say he was in the hospital after suffering a 100 story drop after falling from the insanity side of the line.

 

[Nylan]

Judging from his anti-semitic remarks and his celebration of 9/11, I'd say he was in the hospital after suffering a 100 story drop after falling from the insanity side of the line.

I think he just had his chess toe over the line

 

[Cu Chulainn]

Bobby Fischer dead at 64? How humorously appropriate.

 

[Xenocrates]

A couple of quotes from the Guardian and Telegraph obits:

After the attacks of September 11 2001, Fischer launched an outspoken denunciation of his home country during a live radio interview. "This is all wonderful news," he declared. "I applaud the act. The US and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them. No one gave a . .. .. .. .. Now it’s coming back to the US. F*** the US. I want to see the US wiped out. Death to the US." This outburst was not well received.

Forfeiting his title and turning his back on millions of dollars, he joined the fundamentalist Worldwide Church of God in Pasadena. He gave the church most of his prize money and subsequently became a recluse.

"Chess doesn't drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2243347,00.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KDDISL5ZMSWKRQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/18/db1804.xml&page=1

I was leaning towards 'disgust of being adored' or simple perfectionism/simplification as being the cause of his eccentricity, but it looks like he was always wild and:

In 1960 in Argentina he tied in first place with the Russian with whom his name would be forever linked, Boris Spassky. The following year he gave an indication of his future idiosyncrasy when, citing the rescheduling of one of his games as the reason, he withdrew and forfeited a match of considerable animosity to Samuel Reshevsky with the scores tied at five and a half.

He got beat* by a Polish/American Jew. Perhaps this all comes down to not liking losing and he couldn't let go?

*almost

 

[woody60707]

Bobby Fischer dead at 64? How humorously appropriate.

, oh man, you guys are on the ball tonight.

 

[Xenocrates]

, oh man, you guys are on the ball tonight.

I'm not

I missed the Indie's obit, which is better:

Bobby Fischer was a deeply troubled man. His communist mother, Regina, was certainly part of the problem. She was a strong woman with strong opinions. It emerged years later that the FBI was watching her, believing she could be a spy. Their file on her was 900 pages. His supposed father was Gerhardt Fischer, a German biophysicist, who married Regina in Moscow in 1933, but left her and her two children before Bobby was old enough to have any memory of him.

The now declassified FBI files suggest that Bobby was actually conceived in Washington in 1942, when Regina was visiting a close friend, a Hungarian born physicist named Paul Felix Nemenyi. He paid Regina child support until his death.

Ok, so his Jewish mother cheated on his father. Very Freudian! And his family were being spied on by the Americans.

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article3350920.ece

 

[GenMarshall]

He used to have fame, renounced his citizenship

Did this guy got of his rocker or what?

 

[cubsfan6506]

He seems like a nut here.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KnAQN_iwNoA
Link is Clean.

 

[rladngus]

The United States is Evil... that is partly true. In fact, the Federal Bank system and its unsocialized medicine is EVIL. These systems are made especially to exploit the non-white and poor. From where have I heard it? www.zeitgeistmovie.com -> sources are listed as part of credit at the end of the movie.

 

[Abaddon]

And with one word, Verge has made one of the greatest posts in history.

Newb.

Seriously, don't make such baseless statements.