Bobby Fischer 60

Bobby Fischer is my favourite chess player and you will find many links on my site to his games etc. Today I have his 60 memorable games for you to enjoy! ..and of course for myself!

Click HEREto play through his 60 memorable games.
And…on THIS LINK you can read more about him and play through more games…
On THIS LINK you can read how he was almost killed in Japan…how BAD can people be in this world just because you have a passion for chess? or for what you like! Shame on the American Government…he was good enough when he defeated  the Russians after the cold war! and then…. you used him as a pawn! in his own  “game”…
If you want to read a poem which I wrote about him, you can click HERE ….

 

Not Black and White: In her painting, ‘The King is Down,’ the author seeks to capture the two sides of Fischer’s complex personality.

Remembering Bobby Fischer
Reminiscence

By Sofia Polgar
Wed. Feb 13, 2008

Unquestionably the most famous chess player in the history of the royal game, Bobby Fischer died last month at the age of 64 — the exact number of squares on the chessboard. His lively games will be remembered for as long as the game is played. “Chess is life,” Fischer used to say. But, alas, after he became world champion, his life and his chess diverged. And while his games were beautiful, his life away from the chessboard was often ugly. The chess genius harbored a delusional side whose antisemitic and anti-American rants brought shame on not only the speaker but also the game.Many of today’s players — from amateurs to grandmasters — call Fischer a factor in their decision to take up the game. His triumphs even inspired some outside the chess realm. Fischer was the first modern chess player to break down the wall of Soviet chess domination. During the Cold War, as the Iron Curtain divided Europe, he became a hero.“A man without frontiers,” grandmaster Ljubomir Ljubojevic said of Fischer. “He didn’t divide the East and the West, he brought them together in their admiration for him.”In the 1960s, as he headed toward his 1972 world championship, he demolished some of the best players in the game. His road to the top was brutal; he didn’t allow his opponents the mercy of even a single draw. Never before or since were such defeats handed to world-champion-caliber players

Read HERE the rest of the article…

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