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Bobby Fischer 60

16/02/2008 by Nikita

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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Posted in Bobby Fischer, Chess, chess champions, chess masters, skaak, Skaakkampioene, Sofia Polgar | Tagged Bobby Fischer, chess games, chess masters, Fischer60, skaak, Sofia Polgar, Wereld Skaakkampioene, World chess champions | 7 Comments

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  1. on 16/02/2008 at 14:44 mykopop

    Thanks, I am also fascinated by the man and reading every scrap of information about him.


  2. on 16/02/2008 at 16:36 Nikita

    Hi Kop…I’ve now added a newspaper article by Sofia Polgar too…


  3. on 16/02/2008 at 20:45 mykopop

    Mmmmm, I just said I am fascinated by the man, not yet who is my favourite chess player! YouTube had a video of Sofia Polgar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpHyqg-gM-s


  4. on 16/02/2008 at 20:57 bookstoysgames

    Nikita,

    There are two sides to the story. the US government was obeying United Nations sanctions against economic activities in Yugoslavia (that were imposed as a result of the wars there), so it is not quite fair to blame our government for persecuting Bobby Fischer. If France had followed the UN sanctions, Boris Spassky would have been in just as much trouble.

    [Please note that I don’t think that there should have been any UN sanctions to begin with. The United Nations is unfortunately very corrupt, and in no position to dictate morality to anyone. For example, Cuba, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia were on the Human Rights Commission in 2006.]

    Bobby Fischer was warned not to play in Yugoslavia before the beginning of the match, but he spat on the US order. He could have simply transferred his citizenship elsewhere if he felt the way he did about the United States. Or he could have asked for the match to be held elsewhere. His troubles after that were his own fault.
    Ray D.


  5. on 16/02/2008 at 21:25 Nikita

    Hi Ray D… I do understand your point..and the US..but it’s still ridiculous to use a sport to dictate to people what to do and what not! Where are the rights of individuals, I mean, if he was just an ordinary chess player… like me… now, just because he was a world champion, he was treated badly! Don’t get me wrong, I know what the “politics” is all about, it’s just ridiculous!And..what if you as the individual don’t agree with your country’s political policy/view…then you get “punished” for their views…


  6. on 10/03/2008 at 09:14 Lemuel(Philippines)

    A very talented player since then.. But I love players who have more guts than talent.. For me Fisher is a hardworker than a talented one..


  7. on 10/03/2008 at 19:53 Nikita

    Hi Lemuel… for me he was someone with a talent.. 😉
    http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/bobby-fischer-is-dead-at-64/



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