mike777 Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_re_eu/obit_fischer Bobby Fischer died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 yeah, i saw that on cnn this morning... he got a whole lot of people interested in chess, but seemed to have had an ongoing dispute with the gov't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted January 19, 2008 Report Share Posted January 19, 2008 I heard he had a fondness for Tyson chicken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted January 19, 2008 Report Share Posted January 19, 2008 I remember Warner Wolf in his sports show trying vainly to explain the exciting action in the Fisher-Spaasky match. Towards the end he suggested that next time they just hold three games and be done with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted January 19, 2008 Report Share Posted January 19, 2008 Referring to the first match between Fischer and Spassky in Reykjavik in the summer of 1972 , Bruce Weber writes: Mr. Fischer won with such brilliance and dramatic flair that he became an unassailable representative of greatness in the world of competitive games, much as Babe Ruth had been and Michael Jordan would become. “It was Bobby Fischer who had, single-handedly, made the world recognize that chess on its highest level was as competitive as football, as thrilling as a duel to the death, as aesthetically satisfying as a fine work of art, as intellectually demanding as any form of human activity,” Harold C. Schonberg, who reported on the Reykjavik match for The New York Times, wrote in his 1973 book “Grandmasters of Chess.” Even in his years of triumph, Mr. Fischer was volatile and difficult. During the 1972 world championship match against Mr. Spassky, Mr. Fischer’s petulance, even loutishness, was the stuff of front page headlines all over the globe. Incensed by the conditions under which the match was to be played — he was particularly offended by the whir of television cameras in the hall — he lost the first game, then forfeited the second and insisted that the remaining games be played in an isolated room. There, he roared back from what, in chess, is a sizable deficit, trouncing Mr. Spassky, 12 ½ to 8 ½. (In championship chess, a victory is worth one point for each player, a draw a half-point.) In all, Mr. Fischer won 7 games, lost 3 (including the forfeit) and drew 11. Through July and most of August 1972, the attention of the world was riveted on the Spassky-Fischer match. Americans who didn’t know a Ruy Lopez from a Poisoned Pawn watched a hitherto unknown commentator named Shelby Lyman explain each game on public television. All this was Mr. Fischer’s doing. Bobby Fischer — the rebel, the enfant terrible, the uncompromising savage of the chess board — had captured the imagination of the world. Because of him, for the first time in the United States, the game, with all its arcana and intimations of nerdiness, was cool. And when the championship match was over, he walked away with a winner’s purse of $250,000, a sum that staggered anyone associated with chess. When Mr. Spassky won the world championship, his prize had been $1,400. More ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zasanya Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 I remember Warner Wolf in his sports show trying vainly to explain the exciting action in the Fisher-Spaasky match. Towards the end he suggested that next time they just hold three games and be done with it. To many chess players Bobby Fischer is and will always remain the greatest sportsman of all time.If a guy cannot understand the beauty of chess he/she is to be pitied. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skjaeran Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 Is it normal to misspell Boris' name? Correct is Boris Spasskij. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 Is it normal to misspell Boris' name? Correct is Boris Spasskij. Well, the correct spelling is Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский, and Boris Spassky is the common English transliteration. P.S.: Isn't it nice how wikipedia, unicode and copy-and-paste combine to let me pretend knowing cyrillic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceptic Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 xzxcvzxc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 Reminds me of the dyslexic Russian artist. Signed his name in acrylic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 Is it normal to misspell Boris' name? Correct is Boris Spasskij. Google hits for "Boris Spasskij" = 8620Google hits for "Boris Spassky" = 127000 The wikipedia article begins "Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij)" So uh... whatever :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skjaeran Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 Is it normal to misspell Boris' name? Correct is Boris Spasskij. Google hits for "Boris Spasskij" = 8620Google hits for "Boris Spassky" = 127000 The wikipedia article begins "Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij)" So uh... whatever :) If the normal english spelling is Spassky those numbers aren't surprising. :) Actually, I'd never seen it spelled that way until here. Which isn't strange. I've never read chess columns or articles in english. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 What is the world coming to? Now they're misspelling it in Norway too! Verdens Gang http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/artikkel.php?artid=515399 Aftenposten http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/article2204640.ece :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skjaeran Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 What is the world coming to? Now they're misspelling it in Norway too! Verdens Gang http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/artikkel.php?artid=515399 Aftenposten http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/article2204640.ece ;) Yeah, that's probably Wikipedias fault. That Verdens Gang gets it wrong isn't surprising at all - the journalists there are able to misspell nearly half the norwegian words; how should they get this one right? But I'd have thought Aftenposten would get it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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