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Titolo: Obituary  di  Bobby  Fischer

Ho  letto queste considerazioni  su Fischer  
in una  mailing  list alla quale sono  iscritto.
Meritano di essere  lette  :
Da:	Brian Wall 
A:	
Chess_...@yahoogroups.com
 
Bobby Fischer was 12 years older than me so his exploits were always on
my mind.
When he died I suddenly wanted to quit Chess. I think it's because I
always wanted to have some kind of conversation with Bobby. 
The closest I came is a Chessmaster that traveled to Iceland talked 
to Bobby and the
Chessmaster said that Bobby knew about me. I always wondered what that
meant. Was he talking about my 
www.Walverine.com
 emails or trying to
popularize the
Free Bobby petition or maybe mentining Fischer's website on ICC. I
always
imagined what it would be like to talk to Bobby.
I saw Bobby play two Candidate matches against Larsen in Denver as a
teen. When Bobby beat Spassky I was a busboy/dishwasher/waiter at Villae
Inn
and it made the front page of the Rocky Mountain news. I later read that
Bobby's defeat of Larsen 6-0 was the single greatest rating feat in Chess.
Bobby beat 20 GMs in a row. Kasparov said he only managed 5 in a row - 
Kasparov might be a better player but no one had Bobby's almost religious
will to win.
 I heard Bobby's deep New York accent when he postmortemed with Bent.
I also wondered if the time in jail weakened Bobby's body. Wardens
don't care much about prisoner health, just prisoner control.
One time I dealt with breaking up with a girlfriend by playing over all
of Bobby's games in U.S. Championships. He only lost 3 games in 8
championships and those losses were very hard fought. His play was ultra
sound and
deeply thought out, a very high level of strategy and tactics combined
with an
obvious ego hatred of ever losing to anybody.
People half my age like to talk about his decline but people my age
remember the profound, electric, personal effect Bobby had on an entire
Chess world.
It's safe to say millions played Chess because of him. There was
essentially
nothing more exciting in Chess than Bobby.
I read MY SIXTY MEMORABLE GAMES a thousand times to the point where I
had to deliberately avoid using his chess phrases, so well worn were they
in my mind.
We had all waited so long that Bobby playing Spassky again was in the
order of a miracle, like George Foreman boxing again after 20 years. My
grandmother remembered playing with Sammy Reshevsky as a child.
Bobby had that incurable honesty that you find in Kasparov or Nakamura.
It seems if you spend so much time arriving at the truth in Chess,
there is a carryover in Life. You have to analyze and report your findings,
regardless of the circumstances. To do less would be to insult the
position.
When Bobby was younger and his mind was sounder, his outrageous
statemtnts were hilarious, almost like Diogenes or Nietzsche or Jesus had
come
down from the mountain and proclaimed the obvious folly of mankind. It was
like
the world was a fake dinner party and Bobby was the toddler making everyone
howl with laughter by saying stuff like - Did Uncle Joe get drunk again
and grab Mommy's dress?
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