Who is glad that Bobby Fischer, the anti american chess champion is dead?

Question

Who is glad that Bobby Fischer, the anti american chess champion is dead?

Answer 1

Not GLAD, but not broken-up inside about it, either.

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Answer 2

Of course I'm not glad that he's dead.  The only people that I'd be glad if they were dead are terrorists.  Bobby Fischer was eccentric, but so were Einstein and many other geniuses.  Bobby Fischer was much more rude than them, but he provided just as much to study:  Einstein provided us with quantum physics; Bobby Fischer provided us with a new way to study chess.  I'm not extremely sad about his death, but he will be missed, if only because people will run out of his games to study.  :)

Answer 3

Tragic news: American Cold War hero dies.

When Bobby Fischer defeated Soviet Champion Boris Spassky, the feat was seen as a symbolic victory in the Cold War, then at its height. It is hard to exaggerate the scale of this achievement. People throughout the 'Western World' were inspired to take up the game by his example.

His mental and emotional stability were always questionable, but after abandoning chess his mental health deteriorated badly. Rather than respect this, unscrupulous journalists were happy to stick a microphone under his nose and record his typical paranoid rants, usually 'Anti-American' or Anti-Semitic. This and his sanction-breaking rematch with Spassky earned him the enmity of the US government and he was fortunate to avoid prison in his final years.

His tragic decline should not overshadow his magnificent achievements.

Still happy he's dead?

Answer 4

Chess wasn't that popular of a game in America until the Fisher-Spassky match.  Because of Fisher, millions more Americans got into the game.  Besides, its the game that counts.  There are worse people than Fisher connected to the game.  What about Alekhine, who was total self-server and a panderer to the n***s?  Yet, some of his games are among the best ever played.

Answer 5

Glad I am not.  Fischer was no less than one of the top three players to have ever played chess (along with Kasparov and Capablanca), if he isn't the best.

The fact that he was only fully functioning as a person when he was at a chessboard and that his delusions prevented him from being active as a player after 1972 is a loss for chess.

wl

Answer 6

Yer a twisted sister, ain't ya?

Answer 7

How could you be glad over someones death, even if anti- American? I don't like the anti- American, anti-military person in Jane Fonda but I would never be happy over her death? Someone somewhere mourns the death of the person you mention and you should have enough common sense to respect the dead....or in your own action of posting this Q on the Internet, you now pose as an anti-American unable to extend courtesy and respect to those no longer among the living. I think you should count yourself lucky to be among the living and not the dead. There are family, friends, and colleagues that are missing the person you mention and your Q will not invoke fond memories of the person they knew but you didn't . Or did you....and this is how you show respect? Grow up! Your cold attitude leaves me to wonder how unfortunate we are to have you represent America through your tactlessness. Guard Dog