Bobby Fischer, now there is a blast from the past, I forgot that he wasn’t dead already.

So you call him a “media whore” but you still give him attention? It looks like your just giving him want he wanted.

I admire your honesty and courage. I think you have very strong points there but I disagree ultimately. It is sad to see almost anyone go and worse, in the conditions that Fischer did. I wouldn’t relate him with Charles Manson at all, maybe they both belong to the deranged but that doesn’t mean crazy people is bad.

If anything, I feel sorry for the loneliness in which Bobby Fischer lived almost all of his life, misunderstood, left alone with his illnesses, broke(n).

Still it takes some guts to make such a defying statement as you did. It sure made me think deeply about this event.

I admire Bobby Fischer’s courage and I respect him.

He had some good and true points.

Although am a repeat reader to your lovely blog, I truly do, but sometimes I feel sick for some of your comments.

Thanks for bringing this up.

I admired Bobby as a kid, I think I even used that same thinking pose as him (jokingly but with some respect) when I played chess in grade school. He obviously lost it but he seemed to suffer from that too smart disease that was displayed in your smartest people in the world post. I wonder if the people who deny the holocaust also deny that the US used nuclear weapons. Why do they all deny the same things?

I agree. Bobby was a nutcase. So was the co-inventor of the transistor: Shockley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley
He was pro population manipulation. He believed the “less intelligent” shouldn’t reproduce.

Both genius’s, both crazy.

I’ve never head of him ?
guess I’m better off ay ;)

bobby fischer is one of the misunderstood celebs of our time. i was good friends with his first chess teacher, mr. carmine nigro and another of his childhood friends, grandmaster arnold denker. they both told me many stories about bobby, both from his childhood and his adult years. bobby was neither crazy nor hateful. he was, however very pissed off– and his childlike personality manisfested itself in those types of thoughtless rants and raves of a pissed off child. invective misdirected at the jewish population in general (both carmine and mr denker are jewish as was most of bobby’s real friends) and the u.s. government (bobby was a consumate patriot in his younger days. his behavior in his later years was obviously irrational and unfortunate, but i doubt he was ‘crazy’. he was a very likable person in his youth, save for some temperamental outbursts and misjudgments which his unbridled personality allowed him to indulge in. bobby became very bitter over some unfortunate events which happened in his life, some of which were by his own poor choices and some which were not of his doing.
to judge bobby just from those now infamous radio interviews from the philippines and from some of his public comments is not thoughtful criticism and simply demonstrates a lack of knowledge about the man. i will not defend his ‘vituperative mouth’ in his later years…but in many ways, bobby was a decent person and it was sad the way he finished up what might have been a stellar life.
and to compare him with charles manson is absurd.
– bruce

Just found your site and I love it already, What I didn’t know was that he was coo-coo for coco puffs. And how does a man that was born a Jew, vehemently deny the holocaust.

Although I do agree with Mr. Spocks condemnation of the Manson comparison,(unless of coarse Fischer whacked some people we don’t know about) he’s basing his argument on what amounts to little more than hearsay and supposition.

It is a worry when a mind can be so brilliant in a board game yet offer the views of a simpleton when facing reality.