Wlod, I see you avoid the usual routine

I note that elsewhere people diagnose 'mental illness'. I would say that RJF
is instead emotionally wounded and his views predictably reactive when
confronted with the perceived cause of his wound.

Of course, this will not deter the chess commuity from a real mental
illness; proscribing for a subject personally unknown to them clinical terms
which they do not understand, and for which they have the slightest
qualifications to pronounce.

The 'better' sort of posters here have avoided inflammatory talk and
restrict themselves to legal issue and tokenism [cigars] and the 1,2,3
process of; Distant Indictment, Political Trial, Gulag.

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Many people do not appear to understand what chess is. It is a ritual
conflict such as cultures employ and actually encourage to offset dangerous
aggressive instincts such as real wars. People might read Konrad Lorenz, On
Aggression.

A few years ago the whole world reported on a little ice-island in the
Atlantic and 2 people playing chess there during a much bigger war, the Cold
War, when their parent continents threatened each other for 50 years with
global thermonuclear warfare and mutually assured destruction.

It is instructive to read 'Bobby Fischer Goes To War' then attempt to
separate the contestants from their respective warring parano cultures.

Then, what Fischer and Spassky achieved was more than all the politicos put
together, they achieved a meeting!

Not that politics took any part in the American side of these proceedings
either, beyond patriotic public speeches on the superiority of American
spirit by President Nixon, and a couple of direct re-inforcing nationalistic
calls on the same theme from H. Kissinger.

What would anyone here understand of the effect of becoming a world icon
amid a world living in fear of it's very existance?

Fischer has evidently taken on a Plutonic, dark and despicable role we dared
not own in ourselves. Of course, to venture in these realms stirs up all the
dregs which are not polite to mention or usually publicly avowable. Equally
evidently he has not got threw his ordeal ~ no Dostoyevski him! He has not
got through a realm of projecting these dregs from the bottom of his psyche
onto other people, the same as with Dostovevski, Jews in both cases.

Perhaps what is most frightening to everyone is the potential that they too
could be exposed to some meta~world event which shakes them to their core,
then they will have to explore their own Underground.

Meanwhile we have only read of Fischer-as-icon, not Fischer as human being.

Phil Innes