If you have a chance to ask the legendary Bobby Fischer one question, what would it be?
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Why do you think so many people in chess still respect you even though you’re a Holocaust-denying, pro-terrorist Nazi cretin?
Is it because they agree with you about how evil the Jews are, or is it that playing chess destroys those parts of the brain which deal with elementary morality?
“Do you like to eat jujube’s?”
I would ask him: “What would it take to get you to come back to the chess comminuty as a teacher, commentator, etc?”
Then I would tell him how the world is a much better place because of his love for chess.
Why?
Why ask why? 🙂
“What’s the capital of South Dakota?”
With Fischer’s current mental state, it would be almost cruel to ask him anything pertinent to anything. Let’s remember him like he was: kind of a jerk, but not completely nuts.
I would ask him since he hasn’t really done anything since his match with Spassky, does he consider his career a success for failure?
Jack
jacklemoine.blogspot.com
Eh beat Russia so his career is forever a success.
His personal life, however?? Not so much.
Nothing. Bobby was my boyhood hero. I could not bear to ask him anything, because I feel the person he was then no longer exists due to mental illness.
What do you consider to be more worthwhile than playing chess
“how does it feel to know that you will never be considered ‘the best’ champion?” How does it feel to realize that in 100 years, it will be your mental illness that will always be meationed in a future biography?”
You never acted as a champion. If you’re capable of giving interviews then you’re capable of realizing that you are a disgrace to the chess world. Of course, you like the attention.
The truth is: YOu have been surpassed both OTB and by computers.
Your legacy will be most likely concentrating upon your mental illness and “what might have been.”
Does this make you happy?
I would ask him if hating people gives him the kind of happiness comparable to creating some of the greatest art that chess has ever seen. Wouldn’t it be nice to get up in the morning and not have any “enemies”?
I would not ask this in an accusatory way, because I think that Bobby has a serious illness and needs, most of all, compassion. I cannot psychoanalyze Bobby, but it seems the roots of his troubles go back a long long way. It seems that he is paying the price for choices that were not entirely his own making. Realizing this may not make us who do not share his hatred feel morally superior to him; but it may help us reach out to others who suffer broken homes and feelings of loneliness.
Have you ever loved a girl?
Why didn’t you defend your championship in ’75?
You let us down.
once upon a time in germany – i met the living legend…
“how do you do, Sir?” i asked him…
not very inventive, i admit :((
Do you understand these rights?
lol@anon 12:26
The situation is basically an impossible one, since Fischer carefully shields himself from all but his sycophants. Anyone who would ask him a question worth asking would never be allowed to ask it in the first place.
And if somehow you could ask, the answers would be evasive and disingenuous. Witness his answers at Sveti Stefan for example, particularly the one where he claimed he hadn’t played in 20 years because nobody would play him.
There’s not much point in asking a question without a reasonable chance of getting an honest answer, so I would not ask one.
Why not accept Karpov’s offer of a Fischer Random chess match?
If you had a chance to do it over again and knowing what you know now …… what would you have done differently after winning the World Chess Championship in 1972?
-If u dont know the capital of SD, im not going to tell u. Im not ur f.. teacher.
-I dont play with Karpov, porque no me da la gana. Porque no juegas tu, pendejo.
-Am I crazy? Well, i didnt vote for Bush, you did.
-My ideas are mine, if u like it or not, is ur f.. problem.
Bobby
Is this the official Bobby Fischer website? The only one you recognize?
http://home.att.ne.jp/moon/fischer/
When will you publish the book you referred to in interviews alleging game fixing and other “crimes” by Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi, etc? And if you have no proof, will you withdraw those allegations?
>>When will you publish the book you referred to in interviews alleging game fixing and other “crimes” by Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi, etc? And if you have no proof, will you withdraw those allegations? >>
Heck, he still hasn’t withdrawn the charge that Korchnoi threw games in 1962. He’s not the kind to let a lack of evidence stop him.
id ask him if one of his legs is longer than the other. ive been observing his stance and notice hes constantly shifting his weight.
Wanna play a game of Fischer Random?
Most of you are COMPLETE morons who really need to get a life. Pathetic.
What’s with this “get a life” stuff that’s popping up on these various posts? We’re just responding to Susan’s questions. What’s so wrong with that?
Bobby, thanx for your great chess games and being my inspiration and childhood chess hero and winning the World Championship and dominating them all as only Morphy had done before you. I love your inventions in time clock and Fischer Random Chess. Will you ever publish a book of your games, of your last Memorable Games to take off where you left off with games from 1970 to 1992? I and your many fans would die to get this book! I hope you shall write it for us.
FINALLY…..someone with brains AND integrity.
Very well said, “Mayanking”.
“Are you happy?”
Brad Hoehne
>>FINALLY…..someone with brains AND integrity.>>
Whitewashing Bobby’s many flaws just because you like his chess is integrity? Must be a new definition of the word.
I still work off the old definition:
1. Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
…which doesn’t really allow for bending principles to play favorites for your friends. In fact, that’s pretty much the exact opposite of integrity.
Besides chess what do you do for fun?
Like I said …. MORONS with nothing better to do than call great chess players cheaters, lunatics, etc.
Kramnik, Topalov, and Fischer are ALL people of greatness that have accomplished more than all of you will in 50 lifetimes and all you pieces of garbage do is bash on them on this site EVERY day!! Pathetic.
GET A LIFE and MOVE OUT YOUR PARENTS’ BASEMENTS …… LOSERS!!!!!
“White or Black?”
🙂
Would he be interested in writing Sixty More Memorable Games?
Books like Agur’s and MGP Vol. 4 make me think there’s a lot to be written about Fischer’s banner years 1967-1972.
You are a great man fischer!
I know you know a lot about the hidden truth of most the problem of this modern world…
Do you have a hidden counter move Mr. fischer???
Vohual, please elaborate on your meeting with Bobby Fischer :o)
During his 20 years he vanished I found him in LA but did not divulge this secret since it was given to me by one of his friends and I would not betray such a trust. It was good enough for me just to be able to see him and be near the great one.
I love his chess games and what he accomplished! He beat the entire Russian Chess Empire and all of their GM’s all by himself!
Many opinions concerning his non-chess points of view. Personally, as with Alekhine, I just stick to their great chess games and books they wrote. It is of no interest to me what their political/personal points of view are on any topic outside of chess is. There are many points of view and some have validity, some do not, but everyone has a right to their own. I just choose not to get involved in all of this. I play chess at the local chess club, tournaments, but I do not get involved in my fellow chess players non-chess personal life, views, political leanings, financial affairs, etc. Only with my few close friends and family do I get to these matters, but for the rest (co-workers/chess players/acquaintances) I do not. It is my personal decision to be this way but it works for me. The only value system, opinion, belief system I value most is my own! Everyone take care and I hope Vohual will give us more details if he may!
Do you care to play chess with me (a chess fan)?
— Anandh
When you visited a big HS event in 1973, did you wish to say something inspiring to us kids—and did my following you into an elevator make you duck out?
Why did you not play Karpov in 1975? The naked truth, thanks!
>>Like I said …. MORONS with nothing better to do than call great chess players cheaters, lunatics, etc.>>
If your idea of intelligence is to mindlesslly praise anyone who’s accomplished more than you have (which is probably everyone, quite honestly), then you don’t know what the word means.
Has it ever occurred to you that this refusal to think for yourself might be the reason you’ve accomplished so little. Even Fischer, for all his flaws, thought for himself. Granted, almost everything he thought off the board was total caca, but at least he thought for himself. He never did what you suggest: look at someone who’d accomplished more than him, and mindlessly deferred to them. Even when he’d accomplished nothing in chess, he never did that.
>>Kramnik, Topalov, and Fischer are ALL people of greatness that have accomplished more than all of you will in 50 lifetimes and all you pieces of garbage do is bash on them on this site EVERY day!! Pathetic.>>
Uh huh. Say, what do you think about George Bush? Or Bill Clinton? They’ve both accomplished more than you have too. I imagine you love them without question? Reagan? Al Gore? Gingrich? I imagine I’ve already hit a name that’s made you forget everything you just pretended to believe.
What was it in your life that so strongly shaped your views? Do you think you would have beaten Karpov?
While I respect the chess player and what he has done for chess, I have no love for his politics. There are probably a great many GM’s throughout history that most of us would consider absolute jerks if we ever met them on a personal level. Bobby Fischer is most certainly one of them but his accomplishments in chess are undeniable.
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What was it in your life that so strongly shaped your views? Do you think you would have beaten Karpov?
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I think he thinks he would have beaten Karpov, but is afraid he wouldn’t.
See Robert Byrne’s 1975 NYT article, entitled “Fischer’s Fear of Failing”, for more on this. Fischer always had an irrational fear, not of not being the best, but of losing through some fluke.
Witness how the guy who won the US Championship 8 straight times, was so afraid of not finishing in the top 3 by some accidental result that he wouldn’t play in the 1969 championship at all unless it were doubled in length, to give him plenty of time to recover from accidents.
I would ask Bobby what his greatest regret was, and what he is most proud of.
Bobby, when did the “cheese slip off the cracker?” Any chance you could
stop hating Jews, Bush, Jews,USA and Jews??? Written By a Jew from USA.
Bobby, when did the “cheese slip off the cracker?” Any chance you could
stop hating Jews, Bush, Jews,USA and Jews??? Written By a Jew from USA.
@mayanking – special: there is not much to tell. winters 1990 / 1991 Fischer had a secret – but nowadays well known stay in germany (Fränkische Schweiz – Waischenfeld) – at the home of the german GM Michael Bezold – i was – at that time – a member of a local chess club and so – i met the legend – and NO – he did not play chess with me patzer … and no – i’m not a fan of Robert James Fischer.)
i’m a fan of Peter Svidler – but it’s hard – Peter, Peter – please stop Cricket … ^^!zrqvo