Bobby Fischer’s end game
Chess legend Bobby Fischer has died at the age of 64 in Iceland.
Side note: my father may have had a chess set that may have been previously owned by Fischer.
Can’t say RIP for the man who was probably to chess what Ty Cobb was to baseball– for a time, the best there was.
But also a miserable, tortured human being.
We can’t help who impacts our lives, and when those that did pass on, I guess it’s reasonable to reflect.
I had a lot of fun that summer of ‘72; a lot of Americans did. It opened a new world to many of us, and it loomed large as a bloodless Cold War victory until it was surpassed by the “Miracle On Ice” in 1980.
I thought the tone of “Searching For Bobby Fischer”, a really nice movie, hit it about right– Fischer after 1972 was so despicable, but so clearly mentally ill, that it was just….sad.
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