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Friday, January 18, 2008
Checkmate
Who else died yesterday? Bobby Fischer, that crazy, anti-semitic chess hero of mine. I hear tell Deep Blue called out a hit with the Icelandic Mafia.
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Bobby Fischer was a chessplayer first, last, and always, and his accomplishments as such are so huge that his many personal quirks and other kinds of actions away from the chessboard are irrelevant. All the serious chessplayers to come will be thinking heavily about Fischer for generations to come, as they already have for the last 50 years, while they learn chess and in the process play over his numerous, unbelievably masterful games. And finally there will be just all those beautiful games, plus the image of him as a very young and lone David who faced a whole phalanx of Goliaths that, unlike him, had the full support of their avidly chessplaying countrymen. Yet for the most part he bested those giants, and meanwhile none of them had less than the highest respect for him.
As far as I know, there's no parallel in sports or in other fields to what Fischer accomplished, and he did it all purely with his mind, his eyes, and his hands that moved the pieces and hit the clock.
Posted by: Carl | Jan 18, 2008 7:27:08 PM
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