Bobby was a great chess player....one of the greatest.

He was an embarrassment as a human being.  While he did advance the cause of chess around the world, his character left much to be desired.

The greatest player who ever lived!!!

Chess is a game of details and, probably, Bobby Fisher was also concerned with details, besides chess, in every day life.

He certainly had a distinct personality and was more than a 'chess prodigy'. And, for someone who chose to live outside the United States the later years in his life, his personal story must have also been unique.

Mr.Fisher simply... rocked the chess world.

Knightpawn28   

the great bobby! history is on your side! you're a legend!

Yes the issue with Bobby Fischer seems set to continue indefinitely.A couple of points worthy of consideration:[1] it has been consistently stated that Fischer left the chess scene too early. However, it is clear from all the press and television interviews that Bobby gave that he considered himself to have been the world champion from 1962. He proved nothing to himself by winning it in 1972; he knew exactly how brilliant he was.However, he simply set the record straight for other chess-lovers.When he re-entered the chess arena in 1992 he knew that he was no longer the supreme player but it did validate himself in some way.Perhaps he was nostalgic and wanted to revisit past glories.

                                             [2] The sad and the tragic thing is that he was allowed to slip into an all-embracing psychopathology with very little concern from the overwhelming professional chess playing circuit who largely seemed endlessly skilled at voicing  contrived put-downs but seemed unable to employ a great psychiatrist and try and help him. America like its great champion is a great country with enormously skilful psychiatrists [Harvard's Armand Nicholi is one of many].I suspect that he and others like him were never approached!!

However good can come of this...when all the brilliant young chess players who are launching successful careers as well as playing chess are tempted to take their psychological health for granted [recreational drugs etc etc],perhaps the memory of Fischer will encourage them firmly not to.

Why 13. exf6?  I see no need to exchange queen for  few (to few) pices. Did Keres calculated wrong or this is what he hoped for? As for Fischer, maybe  he was not the best, but he was top three. His popularity is due to the fact that americans have only him (probably it will stay that way) so they keep insisting on him( ok some of them hate him because he was not american enough, but who can satisfie the world).

bobby fischer is chess. no other human dead or alive has ever devoted there life to the cause of chess excellence the way fischer did. sadly his obsession with chess was his downfall as it instigated his deep mental problems which tortured him for the rest of his life. the gutless, heartless majority of the american chess scene decided he was a prick coz he said a few mean things about his homeland. no one can deny that the huge majority of the things he said post 1972 were nonsense. it also cant be denied that america is the most disgraceful country on earth, and the decision of their government to abandon him coz he wanted to play chess in yugoslavia will forever haunt decent americans (and i know the majority of you are decent people). go to the hardware store buy some cement and harden the fuck up. sure he said some bad things but who gives a shit. the man was completely deranged. rest in peace immortal bobby. your suffering is over now. hopefully in 10 or 20 or 50 years your homeland will pull there collective heads out of their ass and see you for what you are. the greatest ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   (please dont take offence yanks but the rest of us are still pissed off with you.......but we love obama:)

their was a rumor that a person got on the internet under someone else long in name and was playing GMs on the net. just so happen he played Gm nigel short and bet him 15 stright games. short said it was fischer, but he had no way of proving it, but he could tell it was him because of his brilliances. and this was 2yrs before bobby died. now  nigel short played kasparov and beat him like three times out of a 20  game tournment they had. if this is true and it was bobby which i think it was, and so does nigel short, then kasparov would have no chance against bobby fischer. RIP bobby.

21. R(4)e4 for keres

Can't believe it's been a year already.  Poor guy could have had a great career but cut short by problems in his life.  In the end, we all have to take responsibility for our actions, but his dysfunctional family life certainly didn't help.

Fischer is the reason many in my generation started to play chess, I was in Jr. High when he beat Spassky and i joined the chess club and fll in love with the game and this happened to others in the baby boom generation. Fischer's chess feats were a cause for celebration and he was a Cold War Hero to many of us.Its too bad in his later years he went nuts and was full of hate.  but i love his chess play on the board he is an all time great!

great game

Yes, a great chessplayer. Otherwise, a poor human being. Hard for me to admire someone who was lived a prejudiced and paranoid life. Btw, as a kidney doctor I can tell you that no one dies FROM kidney failure. Either they refuse dialysis or they develop another problem while on dialysis but dialysis is life sustaining for kidney failure.   

he was only 15 at the time unbelievable

I disagree with a few points here.  The topic of Fischer does get old.  When chess is mentioned I think first of Kasparov, and that is likely true in many places.  The match with Spassky, chess-wise, less cool and exciting than the epic battle between Karpov-Kasparov.  He wasn't "taken" from the chess world too soon, he was a whackjob and ran away.  Some say he was afraid of Karpov, maybe he was, maybe he was just crazy.

I still remember watching the interview on “Sportscenter” which took place the day after he arrived in Iceland.  Prior to the interview, I only knew him as a great player of the game, and he truly is one of the greats.  I wish I had never seen the interview.

He will be respected and missed for generations to come in the chess world.

Once again,the game was very interesting.

"you will definitely be remembered and revered forever" True

Both article and game are interesting,thank you.

For more Fischer's games,articles etc check:

http://www.chess.com/groups/view/bobby-fischers-group

Oh, wow. Both sides are just brilliant in that game. What a great player.