Comments on: Chess Master Bobby Fischer Dies

Reclusive Former World Champion And Cold War Icon Was 64

[fitedafuture]

Death was Searching for Bobby Fisher and FOUND HIM..

[thgdriver]

He was a brilliant chess player, a genius, a disturbed eccentric all rolled into one. I remember the 72 match with Boris well. He drove Boris to the point of paranoia, Boris was so worked up he could not concentrate on the games.

As far as praising the 9/11 attacks go. I am sure if he was still alive some of you conspiracies morons could have straightened him out about that.

[easeup-2009]

I''ve said it once & I''ll say it again, Bobby Fischer was the best defensive end in NFL history.

[tbweb]

Fischer loved Chess, he dropped out of school at age 12 to devote his life to the game he loved. In practical terms Fischer wasn''t well educated and had a childs mind in a real world context. Serbia was one of the Chess capitals of the world at the time, Belgrade had Chess activities going on around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! Fischer thought he died and went to Heaven, plus they worshiped him there! I think Bobby Fischer was more attracted to that Chess environment than Serbian politics. Fischer would have played Chess on the Moon if the same Chess environment was there too! I think he later got caught up in politics, Fischer was a Chess freak thats all!

[random_radar]

"emerging occasionally to make erratic and often anti-Semitic comments, although his mother was Jewish."

That would make him Jewish, too, wouldn''t it? Or do we define Jewish people who make anti-semitic comments as non-Jewish?

It is schizophrenic journalism to call a Jew anti-semitic. Tar him with the anti-semitic label or praise his Jewish descent, but don''t confuse people by doing both.

[pelosistilho]

Fischer may have been right on Serbia, but otherwise he was an unstable, obnoxious, self-loathing scumbag who never really did bring honor to the United States. Good riddance to a Fascist pig who was never proud of himself or his origins but preferred to lie with Islamonazi curs.

[tbweb]

In the context of strictly Chess, I think many Chess players will agree that one of Bobby Fischers best Chess moments came during the World Championship against Boris Spassky. During the match the Russians stopped the match and took apart Fischers chair, thinking he was cheating with electronic devices only to look like fools! After Spassky lost to Fischer the Russians held a tournament to replace Spassky claiming his lost embarrassed Russia but Spassky won that tournament further embarrassing Russia!

[Wookiee-1138]

A shame. He''s run the gamut from world champion to a laughing stock. However, he''s hardly the first or last Chess master to go off the deep end.

[iceman_1960]

What a tragic waste of intellect.

Bobby Fischer"s IQ was said to be 181, a level approaching that of Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein and Barack Obama.

It should have been put to better use.

[iceman_1960]

Early in his career Bobby Fischer became alienated from his mother.

After the Spassky championship match, when Fischer spoke of his admiration Richard Nixon, she campaigned vigorously for Senator George S. McGovern. ( - NY Times Obituary)

Well, we know who the real brains in that family was.