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| Posted by olgun35 uskidscompute.com 12/28/2004 08:07:33 Play online chess |  Subject: http://bobbyfischer.sitemynet.comMessage: enter this chess site..! |
| Posted by soikins uskidscompute.com 12/28/2004 12:43:18 Play online chess | is it yours? Message: No content yet, as far as I can see. So why should you advertise it here? |
| Posted by bucklehead uskidscompute.com 12/28/2004 13:53:40 Play online chess | Just a reminder Message: If any website can be called "Bobby Fischer's Website," it's home.att.ne.jp/moon/fischer/ . I've never been completely clear whether this has been maintained by RJF himself or some devoted, in-the-know toady, but it's a good representation of the workings of the man's mind. I should warn you that Bobby's paranoia has resulted in this being a fairly offensive website. ——— Chess and poker - alike and so different — I was watching ESPN Sunday night, and I noticed the World Series of Poker was being shown. One of the announcers noted that there was an "expert" chess player at the final table. In chess lingo, an expert is someone just below master level (unlike bridge, where an expert is above master). Over the years, I have met many bridge, poker, backgammon and chess players, and many who play more than one of those games, if not all. Often these game players talk about what skills are necessary to be a top player in each. Of course, the commentators on ESPN gave their 2 cents about poker and chess. Phil Hellmuth, a famous poker player, said that a lot of chess players ... |
| Posted by brunson uskidscompute.com 1/01/2005 10:32:38 Play online chess | Yikes! Message: I just read the 'Statement of facts' about Fischer's detainment and deportation from Japan linked from the aforementioned site. I've never read such a biased and venemous diatribe outside of a white supremacy website. Ignoring the writer's ignorance of proper punctuation and paragraph structure, here are a couple of my favorite excepts from this account: "Obviously the filthy Jew-controlled U.S. government preferred to illegally and criminally grab and destroy Bobby's passport only when Bobby was not in neutral Switzerland." "Even the translator conceded to Bobby in Spanish that in his opinion Bush is a monster!" "He broke that promise about 5 minutes later when he left the Narita airport immigration lockup with Bobby's passport! Jesus, usually it takes even a Jew a little longer than that to break his word!" I also love the "unbiased" characterizations the author attributes to the antagonists in the story, quite the embellishment for someone who wasn't actually a witness of the events: "He was blocked by a smirking young immigration security type." "Then he looked at Bobby intently and maliciously and with twinkling eyes shot out..." It all leads me to one overwhelming question, why do the Jews want Bobby Fischer dead? ——— Chess: The battle of Kasparov's pupils — The Russian chess master has mentored both Carlsen and Nakamura – and the former is favourite to win in London, as this earlier victory suggests. DK: This week it was revealed that Hikaru Nakamura, the US chess no.1, has been receiving tuition from the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Although Kasparov retired in 2005 to go into Russian politics, he hasn't made a clean break with the chess world. He insists he won't return to playing serious tournament chess, but pulling strings behind the scenes as a coach is the next best thing. What makes this news so intriguing is that not too long ago Kasparov was tutoring the world no.1 Magnus Carlsen. By all accounts their working relationship came to ... |
| Posted by brunson uskidscompute.com 1/01/2005 10:36:27 Play online chess | News to me Message: I was also unaware that the Jews are in control of "Time" magazine and the "American Chess Journal". That Bobby Fischer website is just a wealth of information. ——— Chess Ratings Inflation Leads to a Record Ranking — There are two firsts in the current ranking of the world’s top chess competitors, which was released on Tuesday. Four of the chess players have a rating (the number used to create the rankings) of 2,800 or higher, and 47 players have a rating of at least 2,700. Before Garry Kasparov did it in 1990, no chess player — not even Bobby Fischer at his peak — had crossed 2,800. Now six have done so. A rating of 2,700, which used to be the level at which chess players were considered elite, has become almost ordinary. In fact, the average rating of the world’s top 100 chess players is 2,701. But ratings inflation — caused in part by looser rules guiding them — makes it difficult to compare different eras. The ratings system was ... |
| Posted by bucklehead uskidscompute.com 1/01/2005 13:16:40 Play online chess | I warned you... Message: ...though I must confess, I find it entertaining that Bobby believes that, apart from all his other "enemies," the Bekins Moving & Storage Company is out to get him. And to stay on-topic, it appears that the topic-leading website is still fairly thin on content. ——— On Chess: Fischer never sought hero treatment — Bobby Fischer’s conviction that he could play chess to a draw against God, at least with the white pieces, wasn’t a mark of arrogance. It was simply an obvious fact, he thought, if he made the right moves. Although he received much negative publicity, Fischer was usually surprisingly approachable. New York chess grandmaster and Fischer contemporary Andy Soltis recalls their first meeting in the book Bobby Fischer Rediscovered: “He was relaxed, natural and not at all the prima donna I’d read about. He was just Bobby.” Such was my impression and that of many others who had contact with him. But, as his mother cautioned early in his life, her gifted and sensitive son intensely disliked being ... |
| Posted by lordoftherings uskidscompute.com 1/03/2005 14:21:30 Play online chess | :) Message: i tried to create some pages too mith my minimal internet knowledge..as its free it has limited space to put files because of that i cant put more files for now unfortunately.. its my first try and i hope to learn frontpage and html lol.(and also i hope to have a domain and a membership here in GK--How big expectations?...) here is the link. www.tolgaypekin.tr.gs See you...Happy New Year Again.. Lotr. ——— Halloween in the Motor City — Holiday weekends are usually prime time for major chess tournaments, and this past Halloween weekend was no exception. I traveled to the Detroit area last weekend to play a little chess and to spend time with my family as well. I traveled up north to play in a strong open chess tournament. This is odd, since Detroit is not known for strong chess tournaments. But a new organizer, Alan Kaufman, is out to change that. He is a solid chess player and wants to have more strong chess tournaments in Michigan. My regular column readers will remember that I recently went to the SPICE Cup in Texas. That chess tournament was a round-robin, where all the players are invited, all are very strong, and everyone ... |
| Posted by chuckventimiglia uskidscompute.com 1/03/2005 15:13:11 Play online chess | I was born and raised in..... Message: New York City and was there from '42 till I joined the Air Force in '65. I started playing chess in '57 in the different tournaments they would have in the City Parks. I had the oppourtunity to watch Bobby Fischer play in the Marshall and Manhatten Chess Clubs in the late '50s. I personally met Bobby Fischer in '62 when I was one of 50 that played in an informal simul he held. All I remember is that we met and played somewhere in Washington Square Park, NYC. I was one of the college students et. al. that he played. I went to St. Francis College in Brooklyn. All I saw was a very skinny but very friendly guy. I am now '62 and I believe he is about the same age. Bobby Fischer was a great chess player. As I mentioned above he seemed to be a very friendly person as well. I am amazed at how he has changed over the years. In the early '70s his paranoia was evident back then. I read about when he "quit" playing chess and began ranting and raving. He does spout anti-Semetic/American comments but Bobby Fischer is a Jewish/American. He made no sense to me back then and makes even less sense now. Fischer had the makings to go down in history as the best chess player ever. He sure changed from the skinny and friendly person I met in the late '50s and early '60s. It was all his doing. Just like he played the game of chess he played the game of life, his way. |
| Posted by bucklehead uskidscompute.com 1/03/2005 18:07:32 Play online chess | Thanks, Chuck... Message: ...for that compelling memoir. It would be easy to dismiss the man were he not so brilliant. I suspect it is because he is a flawed gem that we continue to find him so intriguing. Consider RJF in contrast to Karpov--Anatoly was clearly a player of great strength, but he is as dull as the day is long (I remember reading once that he listed his hobbies as "stamp collecting and Marxism"). But Bobby offers us sublime chess *and* unending controversy. It must be exhausting to have been so paranoid for so many decades. Well, it seems that RJF will be with us for quite some time yet--many more years for us to all argue about his legacy. Maybe Bobby will even challenge Steinitz to a match over an invisible telephone wire... |
| Posted by bergil uskidscompute.com 1/09/2005 08:18:20 Play online chess | Stop the excuses Message: RJF is and has been mad for a long time. If not American would have been dismissed long ago as a novelty. He was brilliant at chess, but that does not excuse his ravings. You find him so intriguing do you? Don't confuse the chess player from the person. If Karpov lead a quiet life, far better for chess than the life Fischer had since winning world championship. What wonderful chess has he given anyone since, not the rematch of no relavance. In the late 70's or 1980 could have played Karpov for millions but didn't, keep his bat and ball again |
| Posted by muppyman uskidscompute.com 1/09/2005 13:04:22 Play online chess | Bergil Message: You can't have it both ways, if Bobby is insane then surely that does excuse his ravings. If the rematch had no relevence then why is he in custody? Stop your condemnation. |
| Posted by wschmidt uskidscompute.com 1/11/2005 13:15:37 Play online chess | Bucklehead said Message: in an early post on this thread "I've never been completely clear whether this has been maintained by RJF himself or some devoted, in-the-know toady, but it's a good representation of the workings of the man's mind." * I've got a copy of the RJF pamphlet, "I was Tortured in the Pasadena County Jailhouse" and there's no question in my mind the they were written by the same guy. Very sad to see that kind of thing from the same mind that wrote "My Sixty Memorable Games. |