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Skybird · 01-18-08, 08:13 AM

He died in a hospital in rejkjavik, that's all so far. and 64 is a good age, imo. I hope I will leave while still being not ill, debile, or dependant.

He lived on Icland and was given their citizenship to avoid him being extradited to the US that wanted him to bring to court for having refused to obey the political decision of boykotting Belgrade in the early 90s. He decided to ignore poltiics and instead focussing on sports, played a tournament there back then, and won, earning 3 million prize money. Since then, he was a hunted. Iceland accepted his request for asylum when he was arrested in Japan where he hid for years, trying to leave there with a no longer valid US passport.

In his later, anonymous career he earned a reputation to be playxing on the internet without identifying himself, and stun people by his playing style which seemed to have violated all common sense and reason and violated all the golden rules of chess theory, and did not care for things to do and not to do, nevertheless put all the loose ends and the chaos to successful rearrangement and victory, which left most players and experts clueless how he did it.

It is said and rumoured that he was driven by hoping to find a chess player that could match his abilities, and thus anonymously haunted the chess servers and played against people and watched matches without revealing his identity. It seems he did not find such a talent. Or brother in soul, if that was what he was looking for - who knows.

An excentric, yes, but one who remained loyal to his principles and who was gifted a talent that many players even cannot value. Sometimes these stories remind me of what you have seen in "Rainman", Dustin Hoffman looking at the hundred firematches on the floor and within a split of a second and by just one glance immediately knowing how many there are - exactly. In this way i mean it when saying that Bobby Fisher maybe was not just "normal". His chess certainloy was not - especially after he withdrew from the public scene in the 70s.

It seems to me it was a lonely man on a lonely quest, maybe thinking of himself to be the only one of his kind.

01-18-08, 08:13 AM	#4
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,665 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	He died in a hospital in rejkjavik, that's all so far. and 64 is a good age, imo. I hope I will leave while still being not ill, debile, or dependant. He lived on Icland and was given their citizenship to avoid him being extradited to the US that wanted him to bring to court for having refused to obey the political decision of boykotting Belgrade in the early 90s. He decided to ignore poltiics and instead focussing on sports, played a tournament there back then, and won, earning 3 million prize money. Since then, he was a hunted. Iceland accepted his request for asylum when he was arrested in Japan where he hid for years, trying to leave there with a no longer valid US passport. In his later, anonymous career he earned a reputation to be playxing on the internet without identifying himself, and stun people by his playing style which seemed to have violated all common sense and reason and violated all the golden rules of chess theory, and did not care for things to do and not to do, nevertheless put all the loose ends and the chaos to successful rearrangement and victory, which left most players and experts clueless how he did it. It is said and rumoured that he was driven by hoping to find a chess player that could match his abilities, and thus anonymously haunted the chess servers and played against people and watched matches without revealing his identity. It seems he did not find such a talent. Or brother in soul, if that was what he was looking for - who knows. An excentric, yes, but one who remained loyal to his principles and who was gifted a talent that many players even cannot value. Sometimes these stories remind me of what you have seen in "Rainman", Dustin Hoffman looking at the hundred firematches on the floor and within a split of a second and by just one glance immediately knowing how many there are - exactly. In this way i mean it when saying that Bobby Fisher maybe was not just "normal". His chess certainloy was not - especially after he withdrew from the public scene in the 70s. It seems to me it was a lonely man on a lonely quest, maybe thinking of himself to be the only one of his kind. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.