Bobby Fischer vs. the Rest of the World: Updated in 2009, with a New Foreword and scores of all 25 games between Fischer and Spassky, with diagrams and some chess analysis by Sam Sloan
Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I am one of those people who, despite all the obvious advantages, dislikes virtual music libraries. I need to have the actual albums to get a feeling for the music, which otherwise sounds utterly inpersonal to me. Call me old-fashioned, but for the same reason I think a nice book – instead of a database [...]
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
An 'uncanny' aptitude for chess Wilton student is no ordinary player Posted on 11/05/2009 By LAUREN MYLO Hour Staff Writer Two weeks ago, Wiltonian Kapil Chandran beat a chess grandmaster who once beat legendary chess player Bobby Fischer. The next weekend, Kapil, 11, hosted a Halloween party with friends from Middlebrook School, where he is a student. Chandran is an ordinary boy despite his uncanny...
Streatham & Brixton Chess Club (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Mikhail Tal describes meeting Bobby Fischer at the Varna Olympiad, 1962 * :- I asked him all sorts of questions, and in conclusion, as we were approaching the hotel, I asked, “You’ll soon turn twenty – are you thinking of marrying?” He looked at me so trustingly: “This very problem is concerning me, and I don’t what to do. Buy a second-hand car or get married'”...
Eclecticity (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
In time Mr. Fischer became a horse's ass. Remember him? A short remembrance here. Idiot savant, sounds like. Thanks Maggie's Farm
Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Last Tuesday, in the Max Euwe Centre in Amsterdam, publisher Hanon W. Russell and author Karsten Müller officially presented their brand new book on Fischer: Bobby Fischer – The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion. ChessVibes was there to film the presentation and ask the author a few questions. Bobby Fischer – [...]
Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Halloween witch above courtesy of Theo High-end home stagers. The sad strange life of Bobby Fischer "Sustainability" Wars on campus. A new housing bubble? Your government is working on it. The guy who filmed the world's last hunter-gatherers
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
I just finished a nearly 4 hour filming for a new Bobby Fischer documentary. I think this one is quite different than other Fischer documentary in the past. I will let you know when it will be released. Chess news from Susan Polgar
Incentives Matter (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Think twice before assuming that playing chess will make your child a more capable person - well, at least outside of the art of playing chess itself. This is what the example of Bobby Fischer teaches us (HT Selva Brasilis ): Fischer’s hatred of Jews turned paranoid. Pictures of Hitler decorated his lodgings. He denied the Holocaust. America, he was convinced, had fallen into the hands of “stinking...
"E pur si muove!" (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Here is an interesting column by Martin Gardner on late chess great, and anti-Semitic and anti-American (America is run by Jews, dontcha know) nut case Bobby Fischer. It contains some facts I did not previously know -- as for instance that in his later years, after he went completely over the edge, he seldom changed his clothes or removed his baseball cap. I imagine downwind of him was a bad place...
Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
We have just received from our friends at Russell Enterprises: Bobby Fischer – The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion. This is without doubt the ultimate Fischer Collection because, for the first time ever, every one of his 736(!) tournament and match games is presented with insightful explanations and analysis. Karsten Müller annotates [...]
Streatham & Brixton Chess Club (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Long-term readers may well remember that a couple of years ago, I solved the problem of short draws in chess . And now today, I'm going to put an end to the problem of rating inflation and deflation . Or should I say, problem s . After all, even if there is general agreement that FIDE's Elo system inflates - all these new 2700 players can't be that strong - there is more than one issue. Firstly, even...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Chess rivalry is psychological, sometimes intellectual By Errol Tiwari October 25, 2009 in Features, Sunday Rivalries in sport are usually riveting; between individuals, and sometimes, between countries. In boxing, there was Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier, and for years in cricket, there was the West Indies vs Australia. For Guyana, I can think of no greater, and passionate rivalry, than Guyana vs Suriname...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
World's youngest GMs Friday, October 23, 2009 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES 1. Sergey Karjakin UKR 12 years, 7 months, 0 days 2. Parimarjan Negi IND 13 years, 4 months, 22 days 3. Magnus Carlsen NOR 13 years, 4 months, 27 days 4. Bu Xiangzhi CHN 13 years, 10 months, 13 days 5. Teimour Radjabov AZE 14 years, 0 months, 14 days 6. Ruslan Ponomariov UKR 14 years, 0 months, 17 days 7. Wesley So PHI 14 years, 1...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Ray Robson GM by IM Malcolm Pein Tuesday 20th October 2009 There was agony and ecstasy in the last round of the SPICE international organised by Susan Polgar at her chess school in Texas. Attention was focused on the attempt by Ray Robson, 14, to become the youngest ever American GM. Robson needed 2/2 and won nicely, see below, in his penultimate game after which he needed to defeat Daniel Rensch,...
Jim West On Chess (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Here is a video showing photos of Bobby Fischer's visit to the Philippines in 1967.
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