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In Reply to: RE: people who make movies have agendas. Accuracy suffers posted by Jazz Inmate on October 2, 2011 at 15:07:30:
It is incredibly naive to present Fischer as almost the greatest chess player who ever lived - there is nothing to support that position. While he was undeniably capable, even brilliant, he also failed to reach any level of performance that would qualify him as such. Sure enough, he won the title, but only once, and against an admittedly not too strong an opponent. He never defended it against truly serious contenders, people like Karpov. It is often said that anyone can win Tour de France, but only few can do it several times. Whether Fischer's one time was a fluke, a pinnacle of his career, or just another milestone on his march to the chess Olympus - we shall never know, and certainly some of this achievements were brilliant, but for one reason or another, he failed to do what the truly great players do. His purported greatness was never truly tested.America needed a winner, and it's got it... nothing's wrong with that. Some also got a precious gift - a self-hating, anti-Semitic Jew - scuff legends are made off.
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- Based on reactions of some here, it also made him into a far greater "genius" than he was - Victor Khomenko 16:04:00 10/02/11 (18)
- Obviously you hate the guy but - Analog Scott 18:04:17 10/02/11 (0)
- hell, the psychological headgames he played with Spassky - Road Warrior 16:41:03 10/02/11 (16)
- From some point on it was all about Bobby Fischer, not about chess - Victor Khomenko 18:48:56 10/02/11 (15)
- What? He was the champion. The Russians for years had loaded competitions, the structure of which guaranteeing - tinear 15:57:40 10/03/11 (14)
- Kasparov would have cleaned his clock. (nt) - semuta 09:31:57 10/04/11 (4)
- We will never know, but we have one point of comparison - Victor Khomenko 17:18:57 10/04/11 (0)
- Viswanathan Anand would have cleaned Kasparov's clo - Analog Scott 11:37:24 10/04/11 (2)
- Kasparov destroyed Anand in 1995. Otherwise you make good points. (nt) - semuta 16:05:05 10/04/11 (1)
- Ironic no? He is a vastly superior player now than he was then. nt - Analog Scott 16:40:01 10/04/11 (0)
- He was one of many great players - Victor Khomenko 16:45:22 10/03/11 (8)
- He dominated his peers like no other - Plinko 17:25:23 10/06/11 (0)
- Just to set the record straight on his status as a player - Analog Scott 16:51:14 10/04/11 (6)
- "the third longest of all time." Case closed. nt - Victor Khomenko 17:51:54 10/04/11 (5)
- You are too delluded by hate to even see what the case actually is - Analog Scott 19:09:12 10/04/11 (4)
- US is not the world - Victor Khomenko 19:28:06 10/04/11 (3)
- Who said it was the world? - Analog Scott 20:21:59 10/04/11 (2)
- "Bobby Fischer was at one point one of the most famous persons on earth. " - Victor Khomenko 05:54:27 10/05/11 (1)
- It was an international event and symbolic of the cold war - Analog Scott 07:32:24 10/05/11 (0)
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