Bobby Fischer has died in Reykjavik...comments?

Question

Bobby Fischer has died in Reykjavik...comments?

Answer 1

You know what's absolutely ridiculous. I finally got around to watching Searching For Bobby Fischer over xmas break. Just when you find a lotta respect for someone you didn't know...

I think I'm gonna play it safe and not read If Chins Could Kill, Bruce Campbell's autobiography.

Answer 2

The greatest American chess player ever and one of the top in the world ever has died.  He was paranoid and had some bizarre political and anti-semitic views in his last years but lets hope we can always remember his chess.

Stuart:  He died as an Icelandic citizen.  He was going to be extradited here from Japan a few years ago for unlawfully playing a match against Spassky in '92, but avoided it by moving to Iceland

Answer 3

This is SHOCKING...for me...I really can't believe...I'm a regular at his website bobbyfischer.net -May God Bless his Soul

Answer 4

too bad, he was a great chess player.

Answer 5

He was the greatest Chess player to ever live....

He was also a very troubled boy/adult....Comes with the territory I suppose....

Answer 6

Didn't die as an American citizen, did he?

He renounced his citizenship here, so ...

Answer 7

Check.....and Mate....

There are some opponents who are eventually going to get us.

RIP....

Answer 8

wow...

Answer 9

He dethroned Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972 and that really made a serious statement. His scandalous statements did not contribute much to the popularity of chess. In recent years he became a reclusive, anti-Semitic expatriate.

Answer 10

I feel terrible about his death.

This is truly a detriment to society.

I will remember him for his beautiful chess skills, however

Answer 11

Mourning will be mixed; he was one of the greatest chess players of all time (at worst in the top three with Kasparov and Capablanca).  

As a person, he left a great deal to be desired.  I suspect he was only a fully functioning person when actually playing or studying chess.  His very vocal Antisemitism was ironic since the n***s would have had him in a death camp in a moment.

Still, on balance I feel the world is diminished by his death, and I'll miss him.

wl

Answer 12

Is this the man who only the other week was opposing Putin?

Strange tasting tea, anybody?

Answer 13

did he, How sad, I hope his family is doing well

Answer 14

Thanks for telling us...

That is sad... he was a great chess player.

Answer 15

sic transit gloria mundi

Answer 16

Whatever, After his joyful comments about 9/11, I could really care less. He said in an interview that the us deserved to be taken down and he was joyful to see the planes hit the wtc. He can go to h**l for all I care. Plus he was well known for being anti semitic so I dislike him even more!

Answer 17

What would cause a man of Jewish descent and one of the USA's most famous champions to die a young, bitter , anti-Semitic hater of the US as he was?  Fascinating... I hope he left a memoire.

Views aside.. I'm sorry to see him go.

Peace.