Posted on 03/27/2005 3:21:56 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
The closest AP comes to revealing the truth about Fischer is to allude to his "extreme pronouncements." Do you think they'd do the same if the nutjob in question had said similarly negative things about blacks or Arabs, or might the headline have read "Racist Fischer Slinks off to Iceland"?
Here's what Fischer had to say about September 11th, by the way:
"I applaud the act. The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them. Nobody gave a s---. Now it's coming back to the U.S. F--- the U.S. I want to see the U.S. wiped out."
bobby fischer is a non-entity. waste-of-bandwidth alert.
Who died and appointed you the Bandwidth Policeman?
Fischer has attracted a good bit of attention in recent days, and I think it's worthwhile to draw attention to the biased way in which he is being covered by the MSM.
Also, I doubt that most Americans, including FReepers, are aware of just how virulent his anti-American, and anti-Semitic, statements have been, and thus think it worthwhile to have reproduced one.
I cannot explain anti-semitism on the part of any Jew, or former Jew.
It's simply strange.
On the other hand, he did come down on the right side when it came to Yugoslavia. Last thing we should have been doing was tieing ourselves to the Albanians. They provided many more than their fair share of SS in WWII, and haven't changed any of their core attitudes.
Kind of wonder if Bobby knows that.
Fischer is definitely Jewish by birth. In the press conference shown on ESPN, he relly got into it with Jewish ESPN reporter Jeremy Schapp.
By the way, when Fischer asked Schapp if he was Jewish, Schapp asked if it wasn't true that Fischer's mother was Jewish, and Fischer changed the subject.
As to explaining Fischer's anti-Semitism, I'd say that being insane helps ;-)
*Who* is Bobby Fischer.....?
Fischer is the only American only to have been the world chess champion. Here's a bio I found on the internet:
Robert James Fischer was born on 9 March 1943 in Chicago.
It is a terrible shame to me that such a brilliant chess player should have turned out to be such an obnoxious individual later in life.
Bobby Fischer started playing chess at 6, and from a very young age he attended the Brooklyn Chess Club and was coached by Carmine Nigro, the club's president.
Fischer was so preoccupied by chess that his mother, Regina, took him to the Children's Psychiatric Division of the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital; but the doctor there, Harold Kline told Mrs Fischer he thought there were worse preoccupations and Bobby Fischer's zest for the game continued unabated.
In 1955 Fischer joined the Manhattan Chess Club and then the Hawthorne Chess Club where he was mentored by Jack Collins.
In July 1956 Bobby Fischer won the US junior championship - the youngest player to do so.
At 14 years and 9 months Fischer became US Champion, a title he was to gain eight times.
As his playing continued to thrive so did his personal life grow more difficult. He fell out with his mother and his disagreements with tournament organisers were escalating.
In the mid-1960s Fischer became involved with a sect called the Worldwide Chuch of G-d, which led him to refuse to play during the sect's sabbath.
Fischer's run-up to the World Championship against Spassky in Rejkavik, Iceland in 1972 was extraordinary. He won an amazing twenty consecutive games against some of the top players in the world. First he defeated former world champion Tigran Petrosian and then he whitewashed Mark Taimanov 6-0 and repeated the feat with a 6-0 victory in the semi-finals against Bent Larsen.
Against the backdrop of the Cold War Fischer defeated Soviet Boris Spassky in what became known as the "chess match of the century". During the match Fischer complained about the site, the prize fund, the organisers, FIDE; even to the extent of the match having to be postponed.
Fischer lost the first game and forfeited the second and then refused to play the third on the stage and insisted on playing in an ill-furnished back-room - Spassky lost the game and eventually the match.
But then Fischer withdrew from competition, and three years later, the World Chess Federation stripped him of his title for failing to defend it against Anatoly Karpov.
Since then, apart from a bizarre Fischer-Spassky rematch in Yugoslavia in 1992, which Fischer won 10-5 with 15 draws that provoked the wrath of the US government as it defied their sanctions against Yugoslavia, Fischer has not actively played chess (unless as some people including Nigel Short have posited - on the internet).
Fischer disappeared. He apparently spent several years in central Europe before moving to Tokyo.
Totally reclusive he emerged only to utter anti-Semitic rubbish in radio interviews and his support for the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US.
Fischer said of 'September 11' on a radio show in the Philippines: "This is all wonderful news. It is time to finish off the US once and for all."
His anti-semitism was nothing new, although his mother was Jewish. In 1962 Fischer was quoted as saying: "There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class from the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like."
And in 1984 Fischer wrote an open letter to the Encyclopaedia Judaica, asking that his entry be removed, saying: "try to promote your religion on its own merits - if indeed it has any."
In 2004 Japan arrested Bobby Fischer, wanted by the US for breaking international sanctions (his Yugoslavia re-match with Spassky).
Fischer was detained at Tokyo's Narita airport, apparently with an invalid passport.
There have been recent disclosures about Fischer's background, with the release of FBI files on Fischer's mother Regina. If I understand the documents correctly they seem to suggest that Fischer's actual father was a Jewish man, Dr Paul Felix Nemenyi, and not as had been assumed a German biophysicist named Gerhardt.
It seems the most savoury thing to do is to end up by focussing on Fischer's great chess skills. Garry Kasparov states in his Foreword to Agur's "Fischer - his Approach to Chess":
"Fischer's achievement is unsurpassed - the gap between him and his rivals was the widest there ever was between a World Champion and the other top-ranking players at the time. He was some 10-15 years ahead of his time in his preparation and understanding."
The other thing I would add is that Fischer's book, "My 60 Memorable Games" is a superbly entertaining and instructive book.
exactly.
PS: great line about the last goose in OH. Now there's one goose who earned his Purple Heart.
I see you're still at it. I believe Invisible asked the question sincerely.
Even if you hold your breath, it won't make unpleasant individuals such as Fischer go away.
I *know* who Bobby Fischer is...
I keep seeing these stories about him posted, and pose the same exact question.... "Who is Bobby Fischer". I get the typical response from those who don't know that I'm joking, they tell me what a great chess player he is and so on.
Let me point out that I am the greatest monopoly player in the world, I love America, so why isn't the AP coming to interview me?
Sorry, but as you know, humor and irony can get lost in the cyber-translation.
The poor man's a borderline schizophrenic. He, at least, has an excuse. All I can say is maybe the omega 3 and 6 fatty-acid-enriched, fish heavy diet will calm his miswired brain. I cannot hold him more responsible for his ravings than the crazy lady at the bus depot. May the Saint who watches over loons do his best. You never know, one of these days the disease may loosen its grip on him, like the "Beautiful Mind" guy.
I basically agree with you. Anyone who is that great a chess player likely has his brain wired a bit differently from the average person.
Send Bobby Fischer to the Dark Side of the Moon with nothing but a chess board and a revolver.
It's simply a natural talent of mine ~ requires no thought at all, and I always end up owning everything and having all the cash.
So, to my knowledge, you are at best the "second best" Monopoly player in the world.
I don't get interviewed either!
Free spirits used to head for Tahiti. Even free spiritism is dumbing down.
If neither have you, as I suspect is the case, have ever made a virulent anti-Semitic statement, or acclaimed 9/11, you have no one to blame but yourselves for the lack of MSM interest.
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