What is YOUR opinion <whiteshark> ?

And the soviets won and had the last word...

But they did'nt ..

Fischer's chess is so sublime and beautiful it's a shame these pages get sucked into stuff nothing to do with his art..

Fischer is a dinosaur now for kids getting into chess..

But he's a monster in his influence.

I guess if Mozart was around now his twitter page would be exploding and his you tube would be too ..

But not on this site

Mozart's bio would be maybe three very skinny paragraphs at best lol lol ...

HeMateMe ~

You 'bitzed Bobby had no friends ??

Well, Charlie Brown,
neither did Diogenes...!!

^^^
harrylime ~

Yr/ reflective, serious post beginning:
"... does it really matter now?"

For me,
--just knocked it out of the ballpark !!

All yr/ points were salient... & true.
Corrupt Russia controlled corrupt FIDE.

This nasty combo, symmetrically
- kept Bobby from the WC before '72
- kept Bobby from the WC after '72.

The main reason/motivation
he made demands up the kazoo

before deigning to play in Iceland
izzat he was burning w/ years of anger/outrage

for having been denied his rightful Crown
by FIDE organized rules & Soviet nefariousness.

But, mayhap, youre overly optimistic re/
matters... in time... being ironed out.

Witness: The 'wrinkled' vultures still gobbling away at it.

****************

That post made up for a lot of clowning.
Sorry for my pot shots...

Letz start over...
& pick out furniture Monday. (smiley)

HeMateMe ~

After leaving us such an opulent legacy

-that the 'teen Kasparov carried
Bobby's 60 like a Bible

- that WC Vishy cherished openly sharing his
Icelandic moments w/ a "legend" (sic)

- that Friend Tal exulted
Bobby had descended from heaven

- that Friend Gligoric played practice
games preparing for Spassky

- that Friends Zsuzsanna & Judit Polgar
took him in house in his bleakest moments

No GM (above & not)sd/ to him:
Sorry, Bobby...You are too flawed a genius.

If he were flawless - wd/ you still complain
about that mole on the rt/ side of his nose ??

[long pause]

Be thankful for one who gave us a cornucopia of riches for a relatively short span - think Mozart/Schubert/Gershwin

Tomlinsky ~

W/ all due respect for yr/ grandad...

Bobby's conditions were absolute.

The 10 Commandments are Principles.

Principles are not suggestions,
either Mosaic or personal.

The 95 theses Martin Luther nailed to a church door
contesting Pope Leo X in 1517 were not suggestions.

Nailed beliefs are not meant to be bent,
or removed - metaphorically, or not.

DO YOU KNOW
of anyone else principled enuf
to walk out of a tournament -WINNING ??!!

AylerKupp ~

Where you be at, chiantiman ??

Didja catch my Beethoven 'bitz ??

Take yr/ time...
I'll wait.

Remember i lived in Acaville MX for 16 years.
Living in MX teaches one how to wait.

Fiona Macleoud ~

I read all yr/ posts.

You mentioned
waiting for Godot.

Beckett wanted & got
Bert Lahr & Buster Keaton for leads.

Sam B/ was in the French resistance in WWII.
He waited many times night after night for someone

to arrive w/ an instructive note written in the simplest

of (French) language for him to pass on.

Sound familiar ??

He was also (France) living in hiding in a room writing a novel

about the hero named M writing a novel locked in a room.

[All his heroes begin w/ an M : Malone/Murphy/Malloy

Get Hugh Kenner's "Samuel Beckett, A Critical Study"

written in Beckettian simple sentences

(never compound or complex).

&&& as in all of Beckett, there is... never a semi-colon !!

Go to Amazon : There are 3 dealers, now, who're selling a hardcover

in "good" condition.

There is another dealer selling a hardcover for over $360.

This absurd price is driven by algorithms, but
thazz another story.

Kenner (my friend of decades0 was the only critic Beckett

allowed/trusted to read typescripts of works-in-progress.

Kenner was the most outstanding of all the students of Marshall McLuhan.

All kKnner's books on any author replicates/mimes

Fiona Macleoud ~

Dem Beckett novels

hv chess and chessplayin' characters in dem

Wc yr/ shd know, y/ know

Unless yr/ haven't really read

No match in 75' and a chess vacum ensued which the soviets filled with their main man ... lol>

Absolutely his place in chess history is assured, I don't think anyone is saying otherwise.

I'm sure it didn't make the Soviets very unhappy to have a loyal party member emerge as the challenger for the world championship, rather than someone like Spassky.

<The political hold the soviets had on fide and the world of chess back then killed off any chance of a period of time whereby the public could witness the greatest chess player of all time defending his title ..>

< My information came in 1976 from a relevant party in a brief phone call, of the pinch-myself-did-it-really-happen? kind. The gist was that something had happened to Bobby Fischer some months before the scheduled match he ultimately forfeited to Anatoly Karpov in 1975, and that the United States Chess Federation had gone along with his controversial pre-match demands partly in hope to buy time for him to recover. Through 1983 I had as-requested kept this belief to myself, but when the first words to me from the great man hit the nail on the head, I felt bound to make an exception. After a couple of sentences rounding off the conversation he’d been having with Bollobás and the others, Erdős inched me aside to a window, and said pretty much this:...

So I told him what I believed. He listened wordlessly, and then proclaimed with a finger wag,

That… makes sense!
>