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01-18-2008, 06:40 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Inland Empire | | | Bobby Fischer dead
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He may be a good chess player but he was a jackbutt. |
01-18-2008, 07:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | Good riddens....................  |
01-18-2008, 07:47 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Detroit | | | Good riddance? Why? What's so bad about this guy? |
01-18-2008, 07:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Boone, NC | | | hes just uppity. hes like the russian chess guy. |
01-18-2008, 08:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada | | I wondered what what so bad about a chess player, then I read the article.  |
01-18-2008, 08:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Italy | | | The most brilliant mind playing chess.
Innovative,fantastic,genius.
God bless you
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01-18-2008, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by morf  They dont like him because he renounced his US citizenship  Master chess player, amazing mind. RIP. edit - disrespect | Regardless of political affiliation, most people here tend to get a little irritated when someone applauds the events of September 11th. Renouncing his citizenship amounted to squat. I wish more would do it.
On the other hand, I've always found the guy fascinating.
Mike
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01-18-2008, 09:01 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | check and mate. |
01-18-2008, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar check and mate. |  |
01-18-2008, 09:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bryan316 Good riddance? Why? What's so bad about this guy? | Since you probably didn't read the article, here's just a snippet:
Over the years, Fischer gave occasional interviews with a radio station in the Philippines, often digressing into anti-Semitic rants and accusing American officials of hounding him.
He praised the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying America should be “wiped out,” and described Jews as “thieving, lying bastards.”
Fischer told reporters that he was finished with a chess world he regarded as corrupt, and sparred with U.S. journalists who asked about his anti-American tirades.
“The United States is evil. There’s this axis of evil. What about the allies of evil — the United States, England, Japan, Australia? These are the evildoers,” Fischer said.
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01-18-2008, 09:29 AM
| | You can't plagiarize yourself. | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Elgin, IL | | | I guess we can stop searching for Bobby Fischer then.
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01-18-2008, 09:30 AM
| | | | He was a crazy maniacal genius. A chess player. Not a politician. |
01-18-2008, 09:32 AM
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01-18-2008, 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Pacman So you admire the man, Morf? | As a chess player? Hell yes. Some of his moves are seriously amazing.
As a human being? I'd probably have smacked him down if I ever met him.
Does that mean that upon his death he should be disrespected? You decide. But as the man who just gave me an infraction for disrespect, if I were you I'd think twice about what I'm going to say |
01-18-2008, 09:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | I thought you guys were all about free speech? Be it good or bad . . .
Anyways, its a shame to see what had been such a great chess mind go, but its good to get rid of another bigot.
They always say there is a very fine line between genius and lunacy.
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01-18-2008, 09:40 AM
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Originally Posted by morf He was a crazy maniacal genius. A chess player. | All true. True, as well. The question was what the problem with him was. I think it's fairly obvious why some don't care for him.
Personally, while I wished no ill will towards the guy while he was alive, I'll gladly admit that one doesn't need to be a politician for me to completely disrespect their views. To applaud the killing of a couple thousand people because of their country of origin is ignorant.
With that, I'm done. The guy passed and his opinions didn't really carry any weight on a large scale anyway. He was an interesting figure.
Mike
EDIT: see ya around, Morf
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01-18-2008, 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by mike_v_s All true. True, as well. The question was what the problem with him was. I think it's fairly obvious why some don't care for him.
Personally, while I wished no ill will towards the guy while he was alive, I'll gladly admit that one doesn't need to be a politician for me to completely disrespect their views. To applaud the killing of a couple thousand people because of their country of origin is ignorant.
With that, I'm done. The guy passed and his opinions didn't really carry any weight on a large scale anyway. He was an interesting figure.
Mike | That's my initial point. I played a bit of chess in the past and greatly respect him as a chess player. Whatever his views are, if they're not related to chess, I'm not interested. |
01-18-2008, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by syciprider | True.
I knew of him back when I was a kid; he used to write the chess column in Boy's Life magazine (the publication of the Boy Scouts of America) several years before he took on Boris Spassky. And long before he developed his paranoid lunacy. |
01-18-2008, 09:48 AM
|  | Guess what?! I got a fever! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: San jose, Cal | | | He complained a lot and hated Jews...
...Sounds like a good Jew to me...
As far as rest... Garry Kasparov is 10times chess player Fisher ever was and 1000x the human being...
Garry Kasparov PWNS Fisher...
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01-18-2008, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by morf As a chess player? Hell yes. Some of his moves are seriously amazing.
As a human being? I'd probably have smacked him down if I ever met him.
Does that mean that upon his death he should be disrespected? You decide. But as the man who just gave me an infraction for disrespect, if I were you I'd think twice about what I'm going to say | I calls'em as I sees'em. If anyone wants to be disrepectful upon my death, be my guest  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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