I just read on Chess Today about Bobby being in serious health problem. He has been hospitalized in Reykjavik for several weeks already. Here is the link that was given by CT.
Tras los pasos de Bobby Fischer… y sus fantasmas
Por Ezequiel Fernández Moores
Para LA NACION
REYKJAVIK, Islandia.- Más que paranoico” y “distanciado de sus amigos islandeses”, Bobby Fischer está internado con “serios problemas físicos” en el hospital de Reykjavik, la ciudad que hace 35 años lo coronó campeón mundial de ajedrez.
“Sí, el está aquí, pero para saber sobre su estado de salud tiene que hablar con la gente que lo acompaña”, me dice por teléfono una autoridad del Landspitalis, el hospital de la capital de Islandia.
Pero “la gente que lo acompaña” ya no es mucha: su pareja, la japonesa Miyoko Watai, no atiende el teléfono, y el gran maestro Helgi Olafsson, uno de sus pocos amigos en Islandia, me responde por correo electrónico: “Jamás hable públicamente sobre Bobby Fischer desde el otoño de 2005”.
Tampoco habla Gudmundur Thorarinsson, presidente de la Federación Islandesa de Ajedrez cuando Fischer derrotó a Boris Spassky y rompió con la hegemonía soviética en el ajedrez mundial. El célebre duelo de 1972 en Reykjavik fue uno de los capítulos más notables del deporte en los años calientes de la Guerra Fría.
Thorarinsson, miembro del Comité de Ayuda a Fischer, me sugiere hablar con Einar Einarsson, director del Comité. “En Islandia -se limita a responderme Einarsson- la enfermedad es asunto privado y el Comité no dirá nada sin el consentimiento de la persona involucrada.”
También en la Argentina -le aclaro a Einarsson- la enfermedad es un asunto privado, pero no es honesto contar cómo vive hoy Fischer en Islandia ignorando que el hombre que revolucionó el ajedrez mundial parece estar con su salud empeorada e internado desde hace varias semanas en el hospital.
“Está mal, el problema es serio”, me asegura uno de sus vecinos en una recorrida que hice por el barrio de Fischer. Nadie quiere decir su nombre en el 101 Reykjavik, como se conoce al Down Town de la capital más septentrional del mundo, poblada por cien mil habitantes y cuya vida de noches de invierno heladas y eternas refleja con cinismo la película homónima que protagonizó Victoria Abril en 2001.
Here is the full article.
I hope he’s OK. Thanks for letting us know.
can anyone tell us what kind of problems hes in.. coz not many can read spanish or what ever the lang was.
My Spanish is weak. Can someone give the gist of this article?
They only said it was serious. They didn’t say what it was.
translation (in one line) :
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel
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Enviadas
That’s very sad. Fischer is my hero and I’m sure he is for countless others too. Let’s just hope he recovers soon.
I cut and paste the translated news using babel fish to
http://news.gilachess.com
Thanks Susan and thanks Andrew Ooi.
Praying for Bobby
A. Weiler
Kfar Saba, Israel.
It is quite sad… that his physicakl health is bad!
at least… he still has a great and true mental health….
even with all these year with abuse and lie bythe evil international Sabetean and Zionist Jews(not ordinary Jews) did and sabotage him all these year…..
what agreat and brave true Man…
what a true Genius,,,,
Not just like some Russianchess player wannabe politician…pretending to save the world(Russian…
following and Licking the ideology of his master …
those Bankers!
Regarding that “translation” Man..that is Funky …..It’s pretty bad…I was starting to feel drunk just reading it. wow.haha.
You are right. Sorry about that. I cleaned up as much as I can for the first 2 paragraphs. I couldn’t make out much from the last paragraph so I left it as it is.
Translated text
sad that so many share his delusions
if he dies he will play the grim reeper chess, and be allowed back. just in time to spew more hate.
its not worth translating word by word because it dont say much it just babble on and on with the same but without saying anythin, cantinfleando..jeee
basically fisher is ill, its more the physical than mental, hes been interned at hospital for several week, and downtown where he lives they reckon its serious;
nobody wants or knows what is is, so its total hermit and that he is lonely only with a couple of gm and his couple, hope it works out for u and him specially. bye jb.
Fischer has been ill for a very long time on serval different levels. He is such a human tragedy.
Basically it said he is ill in hospital for weeks but no one close to him will say anything more.
Fischer is my chess hero and I grew up to see him become World Champion. I hope he may recover his health.
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life,
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th’oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin?