<Efim Geller> was well aware of the <Panno Game> and actually warned <Spassky>.

<Spassky,> however, was so resistant to listening to his training team that he airily dismissed <Geller's> concerns by saying <"He always plays e4">. Hence <Spassky's> match preparation for the Black pieces focused almost entirely on <1...c5>, and of course <Spassky> got MURDERED when he played <1...e5>, allowing <Fischer> to play his beloved <Spanish Game>. Arguably, <Fischer> was at that point in his career the greatest practioner of the <Ruy Lopez> in the history of chess.

<Geller> was so frustrated that he wanted to leave <Spassky> to the dogs, but such an act would have been political suicide.

Back in <Russia> for the post-Match "dismantling session," <Geller> was merciless in his criticism of <Spassky>.

Tal, Geller, Bronstein, Korchnoi, such players did not mind playing inferrior continuations if it led to an interesting or complicated position, they were not dogmatic

However, what <the Fischer of the 70s> was REALLY most ready for was KICKING ASS all over the place in a way that terrified, absolutely terrified, the <Russian Chess Machine>.

He was a freaking steamroller.

Nobody can take an iota away from his accomplishment.

In fact, <Spassky's> iconoclasm with resepect to his own team of analysts is seen by some as evidence that he admired <Fischer> for "going his own way," meaning doing virtually ALL his preparation alone, on his own.

And, above all else, perhaps, NOBODY EVER worked harder than <Fischer>.

Ever. Not even a little bit close.

What he did had never been done before, and it very likely will never be done again.

NO computer help, NO team of top GMs at his beck and call.

The man was/is a sociopathic bully/cretin.

However, he did things nobody would ever have deemed imaginable.

NOTHING can be taken away from his chess achievement. It is LUDICROUS to even entertain such a notion for ten seconds.

In this chapter, our own redoubtable <mack> goes down swinging against <bill wall's> Simian Swagger:

Have to research it first a bit.

Who could resist an <Orangutan>? I once knew an <Orangutan> named Frank. Rangy, loping kind of fellow, fun at parties. Especially on the <Rue Morgue>.

I thought your efforst in the <Open> were <Ajaxesque, if not Herculean>.

As <Primate>, if someone said <screw you!>

You could say <Screw me! I'm the Primate! Screw you!>

Then you could rip his arms out of his sockets.

But apart from your effervescent contributions, this dump just isn't attracting the type of contribution that it used to. Therefore...

<Inventors' Corner>
Q. What do you get if you cross a lavatory with a microwave?

A. Hot flushes and boil-in-the-bog rice.

What do you mean man! The contribution level is HIGH thanks to <mack, Deffi, Eyal> in particular.

Not to mention <Bill> when he's not too busy directing his <sock puppet theatre>.

FROGSPAWN remains the highest quality chess page on the Net, and, as <Mack> pointed out, the posters here are not <unidimensinal geeks who only talk about chess>.

Good grief!!

Ack! I was going to "study" all morning for it, but instead I stayed up to God knows when last night researching the <Orangutan> and then slept in and then started gabbing at CG.com even though I'm supposed to be online with my Chesscoach etc. etc.

ACK

For the Korea teaching gig?

My apologies to the <esteemed cannon fodder>, may he rest in peace.

Oh he's not dead yet, that's right.

Never mind then!

er.. no, but I believe the answer is 42?

Is that divisible by 23?

"I just turned twenty-two" is our current theme. 23 would've been better, though there might be rhyme problems.

I never said that, did I?