I mean, just reading this seems to suggest that he was, in fact, a pretty fucking great chessist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer#Contributions_to_chess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer#Contributions_to_chess
Not so sure about that
I mean, just reading this seems to suggest that he was, in fact, a pretty fucking great chessist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer#Contributions_to_chess |
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He was really good.
I read his book. It that I play chess nowadays. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov |
Bobby Fisher not just a chess guru
- (drook)
- (7)
- June 17, 2021, 10:13:32 AM EDT
I've heard tell he wasn't actually all that great at chess.
- (InThane)
- (6)
- June 18, 2021, 12:03:06 AM EDT
Kind of hard to believe.
- (CRConrad)
- (2)
- June 18, 2021, 03:41:44 AM EDT
Does sound a bit sour grapes
-NT
- (drook)
- (1)
- June 18, 2021, 07:38:39 AM EDT
Our chess coach was the one telling us about this...
- (InThane)
- June 20, 2021, 12:05:47 AM EDT
I always thought distracting mind games was part of the game
- (crazy)
- June 18, 2021, 04:47:01 PM EDT
Not so sure about that
- (pwhysall)
- (1)
- June 20, 2021, 03:49:17 AM EDT
He was really good.
- (a6l6e6x)
- June 20, 2021, 04:59:28 PM EDT
