The only time I watched chess on TV, with the big board behind the host, disecting all the moves!
R.I.P.
Posted on 01/18/2008 3:41:43 AM PST by Brytani
REYKJAVIK, Iceland ( — Bobby Fischer, the brilliant, troubled former chess champion, has died, a spokesman said Friday. He was 64.
Fischer spokesman Gardar Sverrisson said Fischer died in a Reykjavik hospital on Thursday. There was no immediate word on cause of death.
U.S.-born Fischer, a fierce critic of his homeland who renounced his U.S. citizenship, moved to Iceland in 2005.
He was world famous for defeating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in 1972.
The Chicago-born, Brooklyn, N.Y.-reared Fischer was wanted in the United States for playing a 1992 rematch against Cold War rival Spassky in Yugoslavia in defiance of international sanctions.
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Checkmate...
He was a weirdo, but he was our weirdo.
RIP
My brain has been corrupted by SNL:
Well you want a victory, well that makes you a wisher, cause one thing is for sure you ain’t no Bobby Fischer.
Bobby Fischer were is he I don’t know! I don’t know! Bobby Fischer were is he I don’t know! I don’t know!
Go ask your momma and make sure you listen,cause one thing is for sure Bobby Fischer’s missin’.
Bobby Fischer were is he I don’t know! I don’’t know! Bobby Fischer were is he I don’t know! I don’t know! He’s Gone!
The only time I watched chess on TV, with the big board behind the host, disecting all the moves!
R.I.P.
What is it with American hating Americans, and Jew hating Jews?
This is the last public statement out of him:
Regarding 9/11 This is all wonderful news.” Fischer stated
“What goes around comes around even for the United States,” and said that if the U.S. fails to change its foreign policy, it “has to be destroyed.”
After calling for President Bush’s death, Fischer also stated he hoped that a Seven Days in May-type military coup d’ etat would take over power in the U.S. and then execute “hundreds of thousands of American Jewish leaders”, “arrest all the Jews” and “close all synagogues”.
Now if that is not a cast iron kook, then nothing is.
RIP Bobby.
Not really.
He revoked his American citizenship, called for the death of President Bush, called for the destruction of America, the murder of most of the Jews, and he died in his chosen country. - Iceland.
Brilliant chess player but an anti-Semitic, anti-American nutcase.
While it’s wrong to speak ill of the dead, in this case one finds it impossible to discuss his life without bringing up his tirades.
That’s more than a kook, that’s batsh-t insane.
No, he ceased being our weirdo.
Arguably the most important Icelander in history.
Bobby Fischer put Iceland on the map, and made it a major tourist resort.
I thought Reagan did that. :)
(At least he was. He crossed the line from genius into madness.)
I used the term “our weirdo” because that was the mindset of this country in 1972. I couldn’t stand the clown then but people would have cheered a tiddly winks player if he could have beaten a Soviet at the time.
The Cold War was fought on some very strange turf.
Is the letter “h” missing from your keyboard?
I guess he gets his 72 Virgins now.....
True. But, he was obviously seriously mentally ill.
Such anti-semitic tirades and irrational rants are common among schizophrenics off their meds.
I heard some radio interviews he did in the Philippines a few years back. The guy was as schizo as they come. Given proper medication, he may have been able to live a more normal life.
RIP Bobby. You scared the Russkies more than Ike, JFK and the hydrogen bomb combined.
I noticed that after the fact...I actually cut and pasted a SNL transcript...just didn’t bother to proof read it. Oh well.
I wonder what his DU name was?
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