WILL FISCHER WIN THE ENDGAME OF HIS LIFE?

My interview with GM Larry Evans in 2004 about Bobby took place before
Iceland
rescued him from a Japanese jail.

http://tinyurl.com/354gcb

Yours, Larry Parr



M Winther wrote:
Don't be too sentimental about Fischer, after all, he wasn't the best
of God's children, and he was an outright anti-Semite. Boris Spassky
was always the greater chess talent, but Fischer benefitted from his
monomania. It was also his monomania which forced him to quit. If you
only think about chess all day long and only dream about it by night,
then you risk going insane. Some people would say that we cannot
demand of geniuses that they be gentlemen, but I think it's the other
way round. They should know that they function as role models to
younger people. And stop viewing Fischer as the brilliant tactician. He
was a splendid positional player.

Mats

FISCHER'S LEGACY

"Bobby was truly a great person with tragic flaws. He'll probably be
remembered like Morphy -- another crazy chess genius."

wrote:
WILL FISCHER WIN THE ENDGAME OF HIS LIFE?

My interview with GM Larry Evans in 2004 about Bobby took place before
Iceland
rescued him from a Japanese jail.

http://tinyurl.com/354gcb

Yours, Larry Parr



M Winther wrote:
Don't be too sentimental about Fischer, after all, he wasn't the best
of God's children, and he was an outright anti-Semite. Boris Spassky
was always the greater chess talent, but Fischer benefitted from his
monomania. It was also his monomania which forced him to quit. If you
only think about chess all day long and only dream about it by night,
then you risk going insane. Some people would say that we cannot
demand of geniuses that they be gentlemen, but I think it's the other
way round. They should know that they function as role models to
younger people. And stop viewing Fischer as the brilliant tactician. He
was a splendid positional player.

Mats