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| Posted by watchurking uskidscompute.com 1/06/2003 00:15:00 play online chess |  Subject: Fischer...Message: The legend of Bobby Fischer is by far the most intriguing and puzzling story related to chess (or any other subject for that matter) that I've ever heard. His mind probed the game of chess further than anyone before or after him and he snapped. He entertained and brought honor to the United States only to be banished by it! Simply amazing! Comments anyone? |
| Posted by chustle4192 uskidscompute.com 1/06/2003 04:02:22 play online chess | So Sad Message: Citizenship in the USA should not be taken for granted. Fischer thought that he was untouchable because of what he accomplished. . .he should not have and he was not! Americans have a very short attention span and forgive lots of people for past indiscressions. I think that if Fischer would have kept quiet the same would have happened here! |
| Posted by atrifix uskidscompute.com 1/06/2003 06:37:25 play online chess | Fischer Message: would have played in Yugoslavia anyway, because Fischer is Fischer. |
| Posted by cairo uskidscompute.com 1/06/2003 06:39:17 play online chess | Telegram from President Richard Nixon Message: Dear Bobby! Your convincing victory at Reykjavik is eloquent witness of your complete mastery of the world's most difficault and challenging game. The championship you have won is a great personal triumph for you and I am pleased to join countless of your fellow-citizens in extending my heartiest congratulations and best wishes. Sincerely yours, Richard Nixon Well that says a little of the rated importancy, of the victory for Robert J. Fischer over Boris Spasskii, back in 1972! Bets wishes Cairo |
| Posted by tonlesu uskidscompute.com 1/06/2003 11:33:19 play online chess | Yes! Message: It was a great cold war victory for the USA. It was on the front page of every newspaper in America (perhaps the world) for months on end. Bobby had that Garbo reclusiveness which was appealing to many people. But even so he was persuaded to appear on several tv shows. On the Dick Cavett program he played speed chess with Ed Edmondson.Even though they were light years apart in skill---You could see Bobby's eyes light up and the big smile as he crunched his opponent. Bob Hope said Fischer was one of his most difficult guest. Hope did a skit where he was an annoying kibitzer while Fischer was playing chess---It was very funny. He appeared on the David Frost Show and on Sixty Minutes. He appeared on the 60 min. show on his birthday mar. 9 and the following incident occured. Someone brought out a birthday cake while Fischer was on camera, and the strains of Happy Birthday began to lilt through the diningroom. Fischer immediately objected. Fischer told mIKE Wallace he was afraid this would happen. Wallace ask him why he was upset. Fischer said, first of all, I don't eat this kind of cake. Second of all, I don't go for these kinds of things. Wallace said shall we take the cake away and Bobby said please. Clearly, he did not like strangers singing happy birthday to him. |
Chess news: A White Day at the Women’s Chess Grand Prix -- Everyone knows that playing White is an advantage in chess (though curiously it was not during the last round of the King’s Tournament in Romania that ended Friday; then Black won all the games). But, the results of Round 6 of the Women’s Chess Grand Prix in Jermuk, Russia, were still startling. White won every game. It was the second time in the first six rounds of the chess tournament that every game had ended decisively. Over all, only 8 of the 36 games in the tournament have ended in draws, an astonishingly low percentage. After six rounds, Nana Dzagnidze of the Republic of Georgia leads with 5.5 points, a point ahead of Lilit Mkrtchian of Armenia. Tatiana Kosintseva of Russia is ... A Race for Second at the Grand Prix -- With four rounds left in the Fourth Women’s Chess Grand Prix in Jermuk, Russia, time is rapidly running out for anyone to try to overtake Nana Dzagnidze of the Republic of Georgia for first place. She leads by 1.5 points over Lilit Mkrtchian of Armenia and Tatiana Kosintseva of Russia. She still has to play Mkrtchian and Hou Yifan of China, the chess tournament’s top seed, who is currently in fourth, so there is still a chance she might be caught. But her form so far has been superb as she has only yielded one draw in seven rounds. So the rest of the tournament may be a race for second. The Grand Prix is a series of six tournaments organized by the World Chess Federation. The winner will ... Magnus Carlsen closes in on Garry Kasparov's record chess rating -- Magnus Carlsen is closing in fast on Garry Kasparov's all-time record chess rating. The 19-year-old Norwegian scored an unbeaten 7.5/10 at Medias, Romania to take his score on the daily calculations up to 2826, just 25 points shy of the great Russian's peak mark. And Carlsen did it while still not in optimum form. He began with two draws, then took risks including a 1 e4 e5 2 f4 King's Gambit and a couple of dubious positions, but his inventiveness and will to win coupled with the growing Carlsen-fear of those on the other side of the chess board ensured another impressive outcome. Technically his most interesting game, certainly from the practical viewpoint of competition ... | |