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The Book of Mormon? The Bhagavad Gita? (Don't ruin it by proving me wrong.)

<‘Some time after he came home [from hospital] we became aware of a new book in circulation, My 61 Memorable Games, which was claimed to be by Bobby. The book supposedly contained the 60 games that he had selected and annotated in his book My 60 Memorable Games with the addition of one game from his match against Spassky in 1992. Every time he had discussed the possibility of re-issuing this book [My 60 Memorable Games] he had been opposed to my idea of publishing it with revised annotations by himself and others, which I was convinced would make the book even more valuable. To Bobby, it was more important that the original sources should be preserved in their original form. To meddle with the text of an already published book was so ridiculous to him that I doubt whether he would have agreed to correct even obvious spelling mistakes, if found. My 60 Memorable Games was no less dear to him than many of his victories in chess. He was therefore very sad when I brought him the news of that counterfeit publication, which, we discovered later, had been illustrated with the Icelandic flag and photographs taken for private use by Icelanders with whom he was no longer associated.’> -- Yfir farinn veg með Bobby Fischer by Garðar Sverrisson

Granted, he was young in that interview, but lordy.

Are you sure it's genuine? I've seen similar comments, but not that bad. In the early 60's, Tal mentioned being impressed that Fischer was familiar with some of the games from the Women's Championship, and they knew nothing about them. "Who has the time to look?", or something like that was Tal's comment. Of course in those days just FINDING games was a chore. Not like now when you can just go to a database and pull it all up.

It's a live interview, check the video <eggman> posted.

I think he was showing off. (You may be a grandmaster, kid, but I know some big words you don't.)

I agree though, these were loaded questions to be asking a young chess player. Can you imagine someone asking Karjakin or Carlsen those questions when they were 17-ish? I can't.

I see all of those USSR women beating Fischer if given knight odds. One might note that there would have been some nice publicity in it yet Fischer never pressed the topic. I'm guessing someone in Russia could have come up with some money for a short match, maybe 4 games, knight odds. Fischer would have gotten killed.

THAT quote I've heard about. It was in a more famous interview. Not sure if even Bykova could have been given a Knight. He'd have been The Bobby Riggs Before Bobby Riggs if he'd tried it.

So given those data points, I would bet on the GM at knight odds even at standard time controls. Especially if the GM was at Carlsen or Caruana level rather than "only" 2500 or so.

The interview was made in 1962, just before Fischer turned 19. He was rather young, but still, I think few top players would express themselves like that at the same age. Women should avoid all intellectual fields, they belong at home, they can’t even cook, etc. Maybe such views were more common 60 years ago, but it all sounds very immature.

Honestly I think they were quite rare even in 1961. And I don't think Carlsen ever had such opinions. But one big difference between 18 y/o Carlsen and Fischer is that Carlsen had a familial and professional support group that helped with public relations, among other things. Even if he had ideas like that, he'd have been told to keep them to himself!

Women should not "mess" with intellectual affairs: complete tripe. Even tripe is better, usually in pho.

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