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No wonder they made a movie about him
From the Times: “Bobby Fischer, the iconoclastic genius who was one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, has died, the Icelandic national broadcasting service said Friday, citing his spokesman.” His obit reads more like a profile than anything else, and it’s a great read. It seems like his life was blessed and cursed, but mostly cursed.
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Yikes. So they made a movie, you say? From the looks of things it would be similar to A Beautiful Mind minus the happy ending.
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If the movie you’re referring to is Searching for Bobby Fischer, it isn’t about him per se but is an excellent movie for any parent to watch–particularly parents of gifted or extraordinarily talented children.
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I remember in their original match Spassky was so much more likable it was tempting to root for him instead.
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Definitely an outlier on the bell distribution curve.
Fischer espousing antiSemitic or Nazi views while his mother was Jewish, his embracing Nixon while mum was a McGovernite.. the twisted family dynamics involved there could provide great fodder for a psych PhD.
Maybe someone’s already doing that.
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That ‘72 match sure put chess on the big stage. It was a huge deal at the time, as it was whenever the Soviets and U.S squared off in any kind of competition. The Soviets had whipped the U.S. in the medal count again in the 72 Olympics, even pulling off the impossible by winning the gold in basketball.
It was no Miracle on Ice, but that Fisher win was big. As a 10 year old, I recall playing a lot of chess during that era.
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What a sad story. I remember as a teenager [and chess lover] being somewhat enthralled by the mystery of this great chess champion. As I read the article, I was wondering what his childhood was like, and as I read further I wasn’t surprised to discover that there was no father figure in his life. I had no idea about his virulent anti-Semitism. Just imagine what an incredible role model he could have been…
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I also was inspired to play chess by Fischer’s victories. It’s sad that he had such evil attitudes.
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As a chess fan I appreciate Fischer’s narrow genius. But that created a cancerous pride that spilled over into other areas of his life to render him foolish in more important endeavors. He obssessively focused his great intelletual gifts so narrowly that undisciplined chaos reigned in other neglected areas of his llife.
Too bad.
He had a fantastic opening but lost both the middle game and the end game. He was a champion at chess but a failure at life.
The movie Searching For Bobby Fischer shows this very well. The child prodigy in the movie narrowly avoids being sucked into the same dead end that distorted Fischer’s gifts and wrecked his life. The child’s parents, initially tempted down the same path of temporary glory, come to see the error and they save the day—good movie.
Given a choice, I would much rather be a well balanced average person than an acclaimed narrow genius whose life is a mess.
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