Bobby Fischer to St. Louis
By Lubomir Kavalek
Special to The Washington Post
Monday, June 15, 2009; 12:00
Rex Sinquefield, the sponsor of the 2009 U.S. championship and the founder of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis, purchased Bobby Fischer’s chess collection last Thursday in New York. Sinquefield and his wife paid $50,000 plus an $11,000 commission to the San Francisco-based auction house Bonhams and Butterfields. The collection includes hundreds of chess books and periodicals, galley proofs of Fischer’s best book, “My 60 Memorable Games,” and other personal items. It is encouraging that Fischer’s possessions found a good home and eventually could be displayed to the public.
I am sure that more of Fischer’s memorabilia is floating around the globe. For example, I have letters Bobby wrote to me in the 1970s and several books he signed for me. There is a tape of an interview we made together in Reykjavik in 1972; it was the first radio interview after he became the world champion. I still remember how he operated the tape recorder, making sure that everything he said was chronicled. And there is a rare drawing of Fischer made by a young German artist during the 1967 Interzonal tournament in Sousse, Tunisia. Bobby, who at that time complained about photographers in the tournament hall, did not object to having his portrait made and even signed it.
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Fischer deserves our respect.
Yeah i second the motion , you too Karpov that guy had me on the floor laughing, suggesting Bobby was afraid to play a match.Yo Susan ” the Russian “thought they were gunna get a free ride! We surprised them on the ICC hehe.
David and Alessandra DeLucia just published “Bobby Fischer Uncensored”, a beautifully produced (and very expensive) book that consists primarily of photographs of some of David DeLucia’s memorabilia relating to Fischer. (He has an absolutely amazing chess collection.) Some is chess-related. The non-chess stuff is very creepy: Fischer’s copies of anti-Semitic and white supremacist literature like Mein Kampf, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, and The White Man’s Bible, and correspondence and notebooks containing sentiments like “kill the motherf***ing Jews” and such. Fischer was a great chess genius, but a very warped person.
“The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion?”
You haven’t seen nothing.
Read the Talmud and learn about the treatment of the Goyim. Reads like the Koran.
No wonder many Jews are no longer religious, their Israeli religious leaders have become insane.