Bobby Fisher - Move by move to insanity

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Yesterday, German-French TV station ARTE showed a very very good documentation, 90 minutes, about Bobby fisher, the century fight against spasski, his youth, and his way into mental illness, insanity and the final crash. The film imo is very fair - and that is what makes this a very human, tragic, depressing story to tell. I heared about him probably being mentally ill, but I did not knew that it started so seriousl so early, and was so bad at the end.

It is French or American film made in 2010. It can be watched with German dub over the English original here, for 7 days from today on:

http://videos.arte.tv/de/videos/zug_...n-4296374.html

So many of the very very great players suffered from mental insanity of some form. There is some truth in saying that if you really get serious in chess and dive deep into it, it destroys your mind and puts the pieces together differently - and then there is no way back for you into the realm of normal life.

I do not excuse his later comments, his antimsemitism and his remarks, but they need to be seen in the light of his biography and mental illness.

What geniu,s shooting fireworks for just so short a time. What a tragedy how it ended.

If somebody has a link to the fully English version, post it. This is a good film to wtach.