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07 Nov 2012 10:30 #110014
by ketchim
Bobby Fischer:
Against the World.... :cool:
kept viewers "completely hooked from beginning to end"
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07 Nov 2012 10:32 #110015
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I used to copy his style of play in inter schools Tournaments :
Would have loved to meet him .... ::redface::
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07 Nov 2012 10:56 #110026
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Fischer in Quotes :cool:
- On winning: "I like the moment when I break a man's ego"
- On the spirit of chess: "Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind."
- On self belief: "There's no-one alive I can't beat."
- On growing up: "When I was eleven, I just got good."
- On the media: "I despise the media."
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07 Nov 2012 10:59 #110027
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Even to those outside the chess world :
Bobby Fischer was a baffling, beguiling, infuriating personality.
Most wanted to judge him either mad or bad -
he fitted the romantic image of genius perfectly......... :cool:
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07 Nov 2012 11:01 #110029
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On 9/11, after planes flew into the World Trade Center, costing thousands of lives,
he appeared on Filipino radio and declared the news "wonderful".
"Death to the US", he said.
His violent anti-Americanism was matched by an equally virulent anti-Semitism -
though he himself was of Jewish origin........ :

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07 Nov 2012 11:03 #110033
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He was finally picked up in Japan in 2004 -
He might have been extradited to the United States
Iceland - the country he'd put on the map in 1972 -
not offered him honorary citizenship.
He died there four years later. ::redface:: ::redface::
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