Did it ever occur to you that it's the people praising Fischer as a person and the greatest president in your lifetime that are the ones that have a no-so-Hidden Agenda?

The Bob Hope/Bobby Fischer video was previously posted here at chessgames.com by others. This is it: https://www.businessinsider.com/flo...

There is a link between humor and intelligence. So it is somewhat surprising to me that there are not more humorous chess players than we actually have. Among grandmasters, I can only think of Ivanchuk.

Another funny chess player is Marvin Dandridge
Marvin Dandridge

Instead, it was the Evil Soviets, having a Hidden Agenda and knowing that their challenger (whoever he might have been, it had not been determined at the time) would not have been able to defeat Fischer in 1975, started the rumor that Fischer had made over 100 non-negotiable demands and the Soviet-sympathetic Evil Media gave it great publicity. And poor Fischer, all by himself, could not counter the ever more widely circulated rumor, particularly since the Evil Media would not make his denials public. Finally FIDE, duped by both the Evil Soviet's Hidden Agenda and the Evil Media, believed that Fischer had made all those demands but were not willing to accept his rumored 9 – 9 tie clause demand, stripped Fisher of his WCC title and awarded it to his challenger, Karpov.

What relevance does this have? Are you suggesting unreasonable demands are less so if you make them over a longer period?

http://www.spraggettonchess.com/qui...

I should probably refresh my memory, but I think Fischer wanted to return to the world championship conditions of Steinitz.>>

My take ..

I fell in love and am in awe of the Bobby from 1943 until 1972...

After that .. it get's increasingly murky lol lol

After that .. it get's increasingly murky lol lol>

Let me post an (en) excerpt:

<So we began to work with the creation of it: the FischerRandom, which will undoubtedly be very popular in the coming years. I came back again and again to help him with the regulation of his passionate game. It favored our work that the photocopying houses in Budapest were open all night.

While the rules for the FischerRandom were in place, Bobby was working on a revolutionary clock for chess. We were only missing the place where the Fischerrandom World Launch would take place. So, in Buenos Aires I'm going to see my friend Eduardo Duhalde ...>

Let me post an (en) excerpt:>

Two things that struck me. Google translate quotes below:

<And the Banco Jugoscandic gave deposits a 14% monthly interest, so people put their money and paid within 30 days. Thus it was that word of mouth summoned many citizens who they innocently made their deposits. The worst thing was that Bobby still had not collected his award and I had to give him the bad news that the owner of the bank Vasiljevic was preparing a great scam, because it was impossible for a bank to give 14% per month without government support. Bobby he didn't believe it. >

Seriously, Bobby? I'm surprised no one tried to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. (Quinteros goes on to relate that he persuaded Bobby to get his money out the very day the bank director absconded with everyone else's money.)

<He returned to New York because Mayor Lindsay was going to present him at a Public Ceremony a gold medal for obtaining the title. On the plane he tells me: "You are going to visit the White House and my president". When we got to New York, the Ceremony with Major Lindsay was very good. But he still had to go to the White House, where Nixon would surely receive him. We passed weeks at the home of his attorney, Paul Marshall, in New Jersey. And the call from the White House never arrived. Nixon, instead of inviting Bobby, gave full honors to the Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci. It was Bobby's first big disappointment with his government. Then more disappointments would come in his life.>

Et tu, Brute?>>

This page should be so much better ..

I don't know how <kp> did his quotes, but I cut-and-pasted text into Google translate. However, there's an easier way, using this link:

https://www.infobae.com/opinion/202...

Then, in my Chrome browser, right-click and select the <Translate to English>.

Furthermore, as Weinstein asserted, that was the very book that Fischer himself had said helped him to become a grandmaster. >

Bobby Fischer and His World

<Viking707>: Fischer was a brilliant chess player with serious, and incurable mental problems. Spassky was well aware of Fischer's daunting talent, and must have been intimidated and/or shocked by Bobby's pre-match antics. In a quiet, sober setting, I still think Fischer would have won the championship, but Spassky would have performed at a higher level than he did.

<Dionysius1>: Hi <Viking707> I don't know about them being incurable. I've never even heard of him submitting himself to an examination and diagnosis. Have you?

<Viking707>: Dionysius: Fischer had a form of schizophrenia that got worse as he aged, and was incurable then. Perhaps with some of today's medications, he might have been able to mitigate its effects. But getting Bobby to take medications might have been as challenging as beating him at chess.

<Dionysius1>: Cheers <Viking707> I didn't know that. I never heard he'd been diagnosed, just persistent speculation as to what might have been wrong with him. It'd be great to know your sources, if you wouldn't mind.

<Caissanist>: I find it strange that people still think Bobby was nuts. The main evidence for that was his belief in wacko conspiracy theories and, if we have learned anything in the last few years, it is that someone can believe in such things and otherwise be completely sane. In a sense, he was ahead of his time.

<beatgiant>: <Caissanist> That isn't the main evidence. The main evidence is the erratic and anti-social personal behavior, which sometimes became mildly violent (e.g. kicking a school principal). Anyway, this topic is not about this specific game, so I suggest discussing it on the Robert James Fischer page

<perfidious>: The following was originally posted by member <ChemMac>, who was quite well acquainted with Fischer: < <Monoceros> I had, as I posted some time ago, a long conversation with Fischer when he came unexpectedly into the Manhattan Chess Club. This was some months after winning the World Championship. In an hour and a half we talked about a lot, but what is relevant here is that he was (1) completely rational and courteous (2) quite clear about why he had, for the time being anyway, no desire to play. He said that he had achieved everything he had worked for during most of his life...and now, what? I think he was just :"chessed out".>

<Viking707>: After playing Fischer, Mikhail Tal described him as "Cuckoo!" when Bobby was 15. Similar opinions of Fischer's mental abnormalities were mentioned by American chess masters, Robert Byrne, and Pal Benko. In addition, Reuben Fine, another American chess master and a psychiatrist, was asked by Bobby's mother to try and help her son, but after a few visits, Bobby revolted and treated Fine with anger and contempt thereafter. Valery Krylov, a specialist who worked with Anatoly Karpov, and saw the correspondence between him and Bobby, believed Fischer suffered from schizophrenia, and Asperger's Disorder. There are also numerous stories from people who traveled with him about his bizarre and sometime dangerous behavior (he bit someone traveling in a car with him so hard, the scars were permanent). Bobby's mother, and believed to be father, Paul Nemenyi, also had mental issues, and it is possible Bobby's problems were congenital. Whatever the case, the preponderance of the evidence of Fischer's behavior reported by so many people who knew him, leads to the conclusion that he was seriously paranoid, and probably Asperger