Then perhaps I used the wrong phrase. What I meant was, did his mind become clinically or non-clinically abnormal? Brady mentions the logic he uses, something along the lines of:

Person A is a very bad guy.
Person A is from Iceland.
Therefore, people from Iceland must be very bad. (Not the exact one Brady used in <Endgame>).

From what I know of him, he was too quick to judge and had a hard time trying to (patiently) understand other people before forming an opinion of them. He had the "Of course I am right, of course you are wrong, and I am not going to change my mind about that" mentality.

But the Polgars eventually decided to cut him out of his life. They couldn't stand him anymore. They were even starting to get irritated with his anti-semitic talks during his stay with them.

And, also, a psychiatrist (also in the book <Endgame>) said that he is NOT clinically <paranoid> or <schezophrenic>.

<Bobby went to Iceland, as Kissinger suggested he do, as the freedom-loving American to kick Russian Commie ass. He went in the role of Patriot.> You mean, the patriot, the chess player, and his sense of teaching the Russians a lesson for what he claimed as taking his title away from him in the past (before 1972) through "cheating." Fischer wanted more prize money from the match. Money was his biggest concern, not the "patriotic" role.

Here's a statement by Sofi Polgar on Fischer. What was edited out at the end was Sofi saying, "it's not up to me but I think he could use some professional help".

http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessne...

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<Nor do I think his anti-American sttements can be justified. America rolled out the red carpet for him for a long, long time. I do think the US government was needlessly, and cruelly, vindictive in voiding Bobby's passport whilst he was in Japan.> I don't know if the US government was "needlessly, and cruelly, vindictive in voiding Bobby's passport" though. He did say in a public radio broadcast, after the 9/11 attack, that "This is wonderful news...it's time the US got their heads kicked in." Besides, he didn't pay his taxes since 1976. That's a lot of money that the US Government lost! He even spit on a government request (or order, I can't remember) in his 1992 match against Spassky. Brady notes that that's the equivalent of burning the USA falg. Please don't mistake this as me attacking him. But, seeing things from the US Government's point of view, it's understandable how and why they decided to treat Fischer the way they did.

<And also his later anti-semite and anti-america beliefs. Do you believe that they were justified and understandable based on what you know of him, or was he really losing his mind by then?> Let me rephrase the question: do you believe that, given how Fischer was treated by others, and his own personality and character, as well as his life experiences, that his anti-semetic beliefs were <understandable>? I am asking from a compassionate point of view.

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In <Endgame> by Frank Brady, he notes that Fischer was influenced by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, particularly his books <The Anti-Christ> and <Thus Spoke Zarathustra>, both of which he has read.

In <Thus Spoke Zarathustra>, Nietzsche talks about the concept of Ubermensch ("superman"). The concept of Ubermensch is described as follows in the book:

<I teach you the Ubermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome.... What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just the same shall man be to the Ubermensch: a laughing-stock or a painful embarassment. .... Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Ubermensch.> --- Translated by Clancy Martin.

Brady tells us little about how Fischer was influenced by Nietzche. But perhaps you know: did Fischer think that he was an Ubermensch? And, do you believe that, given what he has accomplished and went through, that he deserves to be classified as an Ubermensch?

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Now, Nietzsche's <The Anti-Christ>. Brady notes that Fischer drifted away from the Church.

In the book, Nietzsche notes that, <In Christianity all the instincts of the subjugated and oppressed come to the force: it is the lowest classes who seek their salvation in this religion.> Also, <We must not deck out and adorn Christianity: it has waged a deadly war upon this higher type of man, it has set a ban upon all the fundamental instincts of this type, and has distilled evil and the devil himself out of these instincts: the strong man as the typical pariah, the villain. Christianity has sided with everything weak, low, and botched; it has made an ideal out of ANTAGONISM towards all the self-preservative instincts of strong life: it has corrupted even the reason of the strongest intellects, by teaching that the highest values of intellectuality are sinful, misleading and full of temptations.> --- Translated by Anthony M. Ludovici

To what extent do you think that <The Anti-Christ> caused him to move away from the Church?

Fischer later became as a voracious reader. Do you think he agreed with Niezsche's idea of intellectuality and superiority discussed above and acted on it?

Also, <The Anti-Christ> states, <Buddhism is the only really POSITIVE religion to be found in history, even in its epistemology (which is strict phenomenalism)--it no longer speaks of the "struggle with SIN" but fully recognizing the true nature of reality it speaks of the "struggle with PAIN.">

I should also stress that I'm as far from an expert on Bobby Fischer as anyone you could name around here- <TheFocus>, <lamont>, and <Travis Bickle> are your best bets for in-depth speculations on what Bobby thought, what he did, and why.

Of course the 11 a.m. time Mrs. P/sky wanted Bobby to play was NOT fine w/ him --the context of what follows shd/ have made you realize that I made a typo mistake...After saying Bobby was NOT a morning person, c'mon man...

You are really being absurd to say Bobby was never TOLD he cdnt return to the U.S. He and the world (except you, apparantly) KNEW
he wd/ get tei (10) years for breaking a govt/ protocol about playing Spassky 1992 in Yugoslavia + millions of dollars in fines for not paying his income taxes + confiscation of the millions he won beating Spassky.

He faced heavy jail time & complete financial ruin...that's CERTAIN. Where on earth do you get the idea it was a ..."risk' ??!! (boggle/boggle)
Dont you think his (Jewish, yes) lawyer warned him
of the dire consequences of Spassky II ??

The long arm of "W" reached out & grabbed him in Japan on a PHONEY charge of his having an expired passport. He actually had it properly renewed at a U.S. embassy (!!) --now THAT...was a risky move.

Get w/ the program.

Bobby was so far gone w/ his constant anti-Semitic rants he finally managed to alienate the Polgars, & eventually just about everyone in Iceland -- as that HBO doc/ explicitly shows us...

He was seriously ill & incurable.
This was a walking dead man.

"His games...His games are his monument.
He was the best player that ever lived."
Shelby Lyman, HBO doc/

He blew off every friend he ever had.

He blew off literally life-long friends like:

Dr. Anthony Saidy
(because he told Bobby...that if he doesnt play in Iceland, eventually no one will ask him to play)

Larry Evans
(who helped him write MY 60, was supposed to be his second in Iceland, but Bobby told him that he wd/ not allow him to bring Mrs. Evans to Iceland w/ him !!)

Yes... What you report about Bobby & the Polgar sisters is accurate.

But also...
Susan revealed (on her blog, I believe) that she did play some FischerRandom games w/ Bobby.

Then, she was asked the obvious question --how she fared ??

She broke the protocol of being a confidante/friend by replying: "I was not disappointed."

To tacitly reveal that she had won
at some time -- was a hu betrayal of the loyalty Bobby expected, for those who wanted to keep his friendship.

His gross instability annihilated
any possibility of any stable relationship.

At the end, w/ a curable/containable kidney condition, he finally alienated the last possible person --himself-- by denying his body any kind of medical assistance
-- the endgame was choosing a painful suicide.

...Not concession, but self-mate.

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Yes, he spoke about how the White House didnt honor a promise to invite him, win or lose.

But, Travis, I believe it was more of a wry, dismissive remark than a volatile one made in anger...that the context was one of small potatoes, azzit were.

Playing chess, after a fashion,
w/ Premier el Comandante Fidel Castro
--now that was a much bigger deal !!

We both know & agree that
Bobby Fischer the Eleventh
--as Kasparov anointed him--
started separating from Caissa in 1972
& divorced her in 1975.

"His games...His games
are his monument."

Yr/ site is an enduring Memorial
to the gifts of genius bequeathed us.

It is Robert James Fischer, chess-player,
that will outlive the centuries.

The biographical sensationalism will
be as forgotten as the sensational fact

that in the 19th Century
Chopin was anti-Semetic.
Q.E.D., azzit were.

I, too, am done
answering to the more lurid questions
belonging to his biography & not his creativity.

Those questions, properly, shd/ be addressed to
his biographer, c/o the publisher.
& The Focus shd/ not be pestered before or after
his biography eventuates...He's busy !!

To do otherwise, for me at least,
wd/ be to sully this
magnificent shrine yr/ second-to-none
recondite mind has built to his Gift.

Blessings & benedictions for that !!

***
Now, do I understand that you cd/ use
some bux to get some videos made more quickly ??

IF...
you cd/ tell me how I can snare
one-thousand screaming eagles for you
--just lemme know way, Queeney, & you got 'em !!