Later On (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Andrew Hearst: I wrote a post last year about my father’s professional chess career in the ’50s and ’60s and his connection to Bobby Fischer. At the end of that post, I mentioned that he’s spent many years working on a big, definitive book about blindfold chess—the art of playing without sight of the board or [...]
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Bobby Fischer's Idiosyncrasies May Well Have Been In His DNA By SHELBY LYMAN October 7, 2008 In a 2006 documentary about Bobby Fischer , Gudmundur Thorarinsson, former President of the Icelandic Chess Federation, evokes Fischer with a quote from Shakespeare: "I could be bound in a nutshell," declares Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, "and count myself king of infinite space." Few people have been more self-defined...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Another kind of hero At the wonderful Beijing Olympics we had a great American hero who emerged with eight gold medals in swimming - Michael Phelps . It took 36 years for someone to break Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals. Also in 1972, the genius chess champion Bobby Fischer won the world title in Iceland. Spitz and Fischer were featured in every major magazine and newspaper and they both...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Dan Conradt -- Chess is a game for children 9/29/2008 9:50:44 AM I'm never going to be a threat to Bobby Fischer, but at least I've stopped calling them "the horse" and "the castle." I've always wanted to learn how to play chess. Based on my limited knowledge, the game seemed both intriguing and intimidating. Years after making my first half-hearted attempt, I'm finally learning to play. I've discovered...
panopticist (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
I wrote a post last year about my father’s professional chess career in the ’50s and ’60s and his connection to Bobby Fischer. At the end of that post, I mentioned that he’s spent many years working on a...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Students of Russian have included chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, though her knowledge of the language and culture does not appear to have helped relation...
The Closet Grandmaster (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Today's issue of the Good Weekend, a magazine insert that comes with the weekend edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, has a short article on Bobby Fischer. Author John Carlin mainly writes about the ex-World Champion's last days in Iceland and especially about the very few people with whom Fischer had regular contact. One of those people is psychiatrist Magnus Skulason. Just before Fischer died
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Larry Evans on Chess: Dick Cavett recalls interviews with Bobby Fischer August 24, 2008 Brickbats and bouquets were tossed at Bobby Fischer after he died of kidney failure at 64. "He was a great man with tragic flaws who was persecuted by his own country," I noted in Chess Life. Talk show host Dick Cavett interviewed him three times on TV and recalled: "I became quite fond of him. It seems strange...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Chess can be something of a staid affair. But a dispute involving members of the governing chess organization in the United States has erupted into a legal fight that has all the passion of a Bobby Fischer tantrum.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Chess can be something of a staid affair. But a dispute involving members of the governing chess organization in the United States has erupted into a legal fight that has all the passion of a Bobby Fischer tantrum.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
A dispute involving members of the governing chess organization in the United States has erupted into a legal fight that has all the passion of a Bobby Fischer tantrum.
INSTAPUTZ (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Boy, it didn't take much to appease the nutters , eh? Well played, Obama -- even if the move is meant to placate 404 of the craziest people this side of Bobby Fischer.
The Closet Grandmaster (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Melbourne's The Age newspaper boldly declares, "The search for Bobby Fischer is over." Now, for those of you who argue that chess is a game, not a sport, and therefore has no more right to be discussed in these pages than, say, the world cluedo championships, you're probably right. Regardless, the rise of "Magnificent Magnus" has chess fans hopping. They've needed a new Bobby Fischer ever since
South Carolina Trial Law Blog (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
I just finished reading the Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin. Josh was the young chess prodigy that was featured in the movie Waiting for Bobby Fischer. Well, Josh has gone from winning a number of National chess championships to...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Fischer hated press -- sometimes for good reason Saturday, July 19, 2008 2:59 AM By SHELBY LYMAN The media were the bane of Bobby Fischer's existence. He avoided them, fled from them, even once asked a friend whether it was legal to kill a journalist. Friends were warned never to give reporters information about him. Those who did were summarily excluded from Fischer's life -- forever. Whether the...
