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| Riverbeast: <In the Brady lecture, he said Bobby looked at them as if to say "hey, resign already."> Fischer also said "I like to see 'em squirm" and "My favorite moment is when I crush my opponent's ego" Here's another famous photo of Fischer as a boy, giving Reshevsky 'the stare' http://www.echecs-photos.be/BobbyFi... |
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| Nov-17-09 |
| Riverbeast: Here's a whole motherlode of Fischer photos:
http://www.echecs-photos.be/BobbyFi... |
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| Nov-17-09 |
| AnalyzeThis: There are some great photos there, Riverbeast. Thanks! |
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Nov-17-09
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| HeMateMe: Sometimes I see people on the subway looking at me like that and I get up and move to another seat. <This calls for a sequel: My 60 Memorable Dames.> Excellant! This guy should be writing the puns for the daily game. |
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| Nov-17-09 |
| Atking: A wonderful collection <Riverbeast>! |
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Nov-17-09
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| Travis Bickle: <Riverbeast: <In the Brady lecture, he said Bobby looked at them as if to say "hey, resign already."> Fischer also said "I like to see 'em squirm" and "My favorite moment is when I crush my opponent's ego" Here's another famous photo of Fischer as a boy, giving Reshevsky 'the stare'>
Reshevsky had an annoying habit that used to aggravate Bobby to no end. Sammy would write his move down and then move and Bobby wanted it the other way around.
Bobby would complain and Reshevsky would turn a deaf ear and continue his same procedure. ; P |
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| Nov-17-09 |
| Riverbeast: <Sammy would write his move down and then move > A lot of people do that...There is nothing illegal about it. I read in one tournament book (I forget which one) that Tal would write down his move before playing it....And sometimes he would change what he wrote down more than once, before moving...Or he would play a different move than the one he wrote! A lot of people thought he was faking out his opponents, since the opponent's natural inclination is to peek at what move is written....Some thought Tal was trying to gauge his opponent's reaction to certain moves...Or he would get his opponent to start calculating on the move they expected Tal to play, then he would play something entirely different :-) |
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| Nov-17-09 |
| MaxxLange: <Riverbeast> FIDE laws now prohibit writing your move before you make it |
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| Nov-17-09 |
| MaxxLange: and thanks for the links: great photos |
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Nov-18-09
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| HeMateMe: <I read in one tournament book (I forget which one) that Tal would write down his move before playing it....And sometimes he would change what he wrote down more than once, before moving...Or he would play a different move than the one he wrote!> I read the same thing, I think, in "My life and Games." I see nothing wrong with it. You play the board, and nothing else. I think Tal said he would take a short stroll and think about the move he had written down. most likely, he did it to put his opponent on 'tilt'. I think he screwed up Fischer in the first Candidates matches that way, '59. As Fisher was writing down the move (befoe playing it) Tal would smirk, state at Fischer. In his book Tal said that fischer would then play a different move. Can you imagine that happening when BF was in his mid 20s? Not likely. |
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| Nov-18-09 |
| kurtrichards: <Fischer had a habit of looking his opponent right in the eyes...> Sort of hypnotizing/distracting his opponents. A strategy adopted by Team Karpov in Karpov's '78 championship match with Korchnoi in Baguio City, Philippines. Although it wasn't Karpov who do the staring/looking in the eyes of Korchnoi but Dr.Zoukhar. |
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| Nov-18-09 |
| Riverbeast: <FIDE laws now prohibit writing your move before you make it> Really...Well, I stand corrected then...I didn't know they made it illegal Is that true in USCF tournaments as well? Because I play people that write their moves down first, quite often! |
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| Nov-18-09 |
| WhiteRook48: Tal might have stared Fischer in the eyes in 1959 |
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| Nov-18-09 |
| WhiteRook48: (to throw him off psychologically) |
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| Nov-18-09 |
| MaxxLange: <Is that true in USCF tournaments as well?> Yes it is: http://main.uschess.org/content/vie...
<I play people that write their moves down first, quite often> I don't think that there's a lot of interest in enforcing this rule among TDs. |
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| Nov-19-09 |
| kingfu: Anytime an opponent wants to do the stare, the "doctor" Zoukhar, I work up a fake sneeze. Nips that garbage in the bud. Let's play chess. If the schmuck is trying to upset you with his visual "powers" then he is NOT looking at the board. How far would you go to win a game? |
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Nov-19-09
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| Travis Bickle: <kingfu> Spassky has said that during a match with Victor Korchnoi, that Victor was making noises deliberately trying to district him. So Boris said for the rest of the game that he went and sat at another table and watched the chess board for spectators. LOL!! |
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| Nov-19-09 |
| ChessBossMan: Great article, I'm going to add a historical chess grand master section to my website where I will feature old GM's from way back when. http://www.ChessBoss.com/ check out the new GM's section. |
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Nov-19-09
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| parisattack: <ChessBossMan>
Nice website! I did have three images (assume images) that did not load for me. How will you determine GMs before St Petersburg where I believe the term was first used? |
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| Nov-19-09 |
| Riverbeast: The other way to combat 'the stare' is to do what Korchnoi did in the '78 WC match - wear mirrored sunglasses! Korchnoi thought that Karpov didn't like seeing his own reflection |
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| Nov-19-09 |
| TheFocus: <parisattack><How will you determine GMs before St Petersburg where I believe the term was first used?> If you mean St. Petersburg 1914, that myth has been disproved by Edward Winter. The term "grandmaster" had been in use before that. Winter says: <Books continue to claim, without substantiation, that the title of ‘grandmaster’ was first conferred by Tsar Nicholas II at St Petersburg, 1914. The matter was discussed on pages 315-316 of Kings, Commoners and Knaves and pages 177-178 of A Chess Omnibus, and we have still found no earlier occurrence of the story than in an article by Robert Lewis Taylor in The New Yorker, 15 June 1940.> <To pose a broader question: do 1914 sources contain references to Tsar Nicholas II in connection with any aspect of the St Petersburg tournament?> |
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| Nov-19-09 |
| Riverbeast: Another 'Fischer stare' photo...
Can you imagine looking up from a ruined position, and seeing this? http://www.echecs-photos.be/BobbyFi... |
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Nov-19-09
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| HeMateMe: Thats why a bright candle named Bobby burned to fast, and disappeared. Too much paranoia and intensity. A guy like Tal, serious about the game, but not obsessed, would have played as long as Korchnoi, if he had been healthy. |
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Nov-20-09
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| Joshka: The premiere of Bobby Fischer Live was supposed to have taken place last night in Los Angelos. Any reviews would be appreciated! Thanks in advance. |
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| Nov-20-09 |
| Riverbeast: <A guy like Tal, serious about the game, but not obsessed, would have played as long as Korchnoi, if he had been healthy.> I think Tal had a bit of the 'mad genius' in him also...It's in his eyes! :-) |
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