Bobby Fischer has passed on

aeroparrot · Post by **aeroparrot** » January 18, 2008 10:03 am

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/18/fische ... index.html

ConchRepublican · Post by **ConchRepublican** » January 18, 2008 10:05 am

Check . . . mate.

Sail on Bobby Fischer.

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » January 18, 2008 10:10 am

Sail on.....what an interesting person.

drunkpirate66 · Post by **drunkpirate66** » January 18, 2008 10:17 am

Interesting? He was a crazy anti American a$s. He certainly forgot where he came from in his later arrogant days . . .

thanks for enthralling us with your chess game Bobby.

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » January 18, 2008 12:16 pm

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » January 18, 2008 1:07 pm

drunkpirate66 wrote:Interesting? He was a crazy anti American a$s.

Yes. I find that interesting.

ConchRepublican · Post by **ConchRepublican** » January 18, 2008 1:23 pm

chippewa wrote:

Perfect!

ConchRepublican · Post by **ConchRepublican** » January 18, 2008 1:25 pm

drunkpirate66 wrote:Interesting? He was a crazy anti American a$s. He certainly forgot where he came from in his later arrogant days . . .

thanks for enthralling us with your chess game Bobby.

I agree, but back in the day, he really smacked that Soviet Superiority off their faces by beating Spassky. I do think think little things like that were actually very big for our morale during the time and helped put chinks in the "scary, unstoppable, Russian" armor.

drunkpirate66 · Post by **drunkpirate66** » January 18, 2008 2:22 pm

ConchRepublican wrote:
drunkpirate66 wrote:Interesting? He was a crazy anti American a$s. He certainly forgot where he came from in his later arrogant days . . .

thanks for enthralling us with your chess game Bobby.
I agree, but back in the day, he really smacked that Soviet Superiority off their faces by beating Spassky. I do think think little things like that were actually very big for our morale during the time and helped put chinks in the "scary, unstoppable, Russian" armor.

Oh I agree . . . I just to choose to give my "sail ons" to people I respect. And if you publicly denounce America and speak badly of our country (or any country for that matter) I don't respect you . . . no doubt he was quite talented at chess - brilliant even.

I think Fischer got up to around a 2800 rating at his best . . . I played in a league once for about a year and got to about 1100 . . .