Reclusive chess champion, at age 64
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_ ... _fischer_9
RIP Bobby Fischer
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NellyLunatic1980
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He was someone who straddled the line separating genius from idiocy.
Too bad such genius has left the world without leaving behind any substatial benefit to the world.
Too bad such genius has left the world without leaving behind any substatial benefit to the world.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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Not all genius is beneficial. The Nazi leaders were geniuses at mass killings, for an extreme example. A more neutral form of genius might be the ability to solve a Rubik's cube in 10 seconds. Nice trick, but what's the benefit to the world? (I could use that last line to describe Paris Hilton.)BackInTex wrote:He was someone who straddled the line separating genius from idiocy.
Too bad such genius has left the world without leaving behind any substantial benefit to the world.
A saying that I read in junior high has stuck with me all these years:
Everyone's a genius, only in different subjects.
I just ordered chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.
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I love the English use of understatement.After the attacks of September 11 2001, Fischer launched an outspoken denunciation of his home country during a live radio interview. "This is all wonderful news," he declared. "I applaud the act. The US and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them. No one gave a shit. Now it’s coming back to the US. F*** the US. I want to see the US wiped out. Death to the US." This outburst was not well received.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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He may have started by straddling the line. He crossed it and dissappeared over the horizon of idiocy some time ago.BackInTex wrote:He was someone who straddled the line separating genius from idiocy.
Too bad such genius has left the world without leaving behind any substatial benefit to the world.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
~tanstaafl2
Nullum Gratuitum Prandium
Ne Illegitimi Carborundum
Cumann na gClann Uí Thighearnaigh
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I loved the guy. I wasn't interested in the political subtleties of the Fischer-Spassky match, I just saw a fabulous rebel genius taking on a stodgy chess empire. For a long time, I saved the Sports Illustrated with his and Spassky's line drawings in it. It was sorta like this, except both were full-faced, and the artist gave Fischer this wicked/impish/devilish/whacky/bring-it-on grin.
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His 1972 run to the world championship was the single greatest chess accomplishment in over a century. No one could beat the daylights out of the top grandmasters in the world by a sequence of win after win after win, with either white or black, without intervening drawn games. But Fischer did. Once. And never could again.
