Susan Polgar
July 9, 2008
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Susan had more time on her clock!
BTW, her hair was simply gorgeous when she was growing up. 😉
I see Bobby wearing his trade-mark crazy hobo jacket.
Watch-out Susan! He is asking you to pull his finger!
We would appreciate having the game scores even if they aren’t annotated or analyzed.
Now that Bobby has passed, I see no reason for you not passing along the games. Would be interesting to see.
Yes, I would love to see any more of the Great World Champ Bobby Fischer’s games even if they are FRC games.
somes blitz games u loose instead
-> blitz games ONLINE
YES!!!! I agree withh jod
I would love to see them.
Fischer is King! Long live the King!
Susan, a question for you:
Did Fischer ever speciffically demanded to not give out the scores?
I mean we know he played with the Polgars, with Leko and with Torre. He supposingly played with Karpov too. It’s kind of strange that no games were ever made public.
Bobby asked not to have the scores revealed. I respected his wishes and never discussed the specific scores. I did not publish the games because that would reveal the scores.
We also did not write down the moves during the games. Of course I remember the moves and wrote some of the more interesting games down after.
I am still debating whether to publish them or not 🙂
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
What made you change your mind to consider publishing tha games now?
Bobby asked not to have the scores revealed. I respected his wishes
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I am still debating whether to publish them or not
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You don’t need to publish who was white and who was black. That way you wouldn’t reveal the score.
Thanks Susan!
I like the idea. Publish the games, but don’t say who was white and who was black. That way Bobby’s wish will still be respected.
I can see some wild guessing who was who 🙂
to respect Booby wish…just publish the game with your name and fischer but don’t reveal the score..just make we guess the score …:)
Imagine keeping Morphy games hidden due to his request that they be kept secret.
Fischer’s feelings won’t be hurt will they.
Susan,
I am still debating whether to publish them or not 🙂
Don’t. Here is the problem: you wrote many times about the games between Bobby and you. You’re obviously proud you played him, and most very likely you won at least one, or more times. Otherwise this would not be a recurring subject in your writings, this is just basic human nature.
Yet, after telling (many times) that you promised him not to reveal the scores, if you would now do it anyway AND you would step forward with the claim that you did win in some instances, the doubters, the nitpickers, the envy ones, anyone who doesn’t like you for any reason at all, could and WOULD step forward with lines like “yeah, now she claims she beat Bobby Fischer, yet she can’t prove it and Fischer is not around anymore to contradict her”.
If you don’t care about such accusations, yes, I would love to see those games just as much as the next guy.
Gabor
Even if you don’t publish the moves, can you tell (at least approximately) who won how many games?
My opinion:
Publish ALL photos.
About the games, just reveal the positions and partial scores that were interesting emphasizing opening & middlegame ideas.
No need to publish the complete scores & games results.
Susan, please publish the games. Bobby deserves his final work to be seen by public, and, as every genius eccentric in every field, he too requested of them not to be published because he was a perfectionist and didnt like most of his work anyway.
But still, you need to enrich us and make it public.
Best Regards
Ivo
When reading this, I am thinking of Franz Kafka! He gave us the immortal “The trial”. Wikipedia: “Prior to his death, he instructed his friend and literary executor Max Brod to destroy all of his manuscripts. His lover, Dora Diamant, partially executed his wishes, secretly keeping up to 20 notebooks and 35 letters until they were confiscated by the Gestapo in 1933. An ongoing international search is being conducted for these missing Kafka papers. Brod overrode Kafka’s instructions and instead oversaw the publication of most of the work in his possession, which soon began to attract attention and high critical regard.”
After Bobby passed away there will soon or later be wrong NOT to publish these games, since he was kind of a Zeus of chess. These games cannot harm his daughter or anybody else. All his games are importamt for chess history, even inoffical ones.
Do NOT publish those games.
Do it! Do it!
I would like to see these games. It’s a part of history. Please publish it.
Susan, would you comment on the modification to Fischer’s rules to simplify the castling in this article?
http://www.chessvariants.org/diffsetup.dir/castling_960.html
Dear Susan,
I enjoyed your comments and your meeting and games with Fischer.
I believe most people would be very interested to heard about your meeting in a bit more detail. Timman wrote an interesting article for New in Chess , where he talks about some positions Fischer shown him.
No doubt Fischer had shown you some interesting positions and games.
There rumors that his wife, a very nice lady I am told, may publish some of his notes, now he has passed.
After Fischer 72 match there are only 35 games ( 30 games from 92 match, 5 other rare friendly games, yes I said 5 ! ) that have been published of this great man.
More games would be great, and importantly these games will live on when we are no longer around. A few more stories about Fischer’s happier moments and the standard chess games he showed you, would be of great interest.
Best Wishes
from New Zealand
I can’t see you telling us about these games and then never publishing them. That would be cruel.
Maybe Bobby didn’t like his play in these games; maybe he tried out ideas that didn’t work. No matter what, you must publish them now. He cannot be hurt by it.
Send copies to me. I’ll transcribe them for you!!
If you truly respect a person, then truly respect his wishes too! May he be living or dead.
It will be helpful to chess historians in the future if the games aren’t extant – and the decision to achieve this or not rests upon your shoulders.
I feel it wasn’t a fair responsibility that was suggested (a bit like the friend who says I need to tell you something, but first you need to agree to tell no one else).
I suggest that you have it in your final will for publication of the games to coincide with a modest donation to a non-profit chess organization (and that the organization will receive the donation following that organization’s publication of the games).
This way you are absolved of obligations to R.J.F. that you not publish them, as another party will have done it, and chess historians will have additional material to work with.
Thomas Jefferson wrote that it is the living who own the earth.
All Best Wishes, Susan.