Author: walter irvin
Date: 11:26:33 01/28/00
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On January 27, 2000 at 15:17:34, M Everest wrote: >I heard the interviews also, and it seems that Fischer does appear to be "out >there." I don't blame anyone for what Fischer says, save Fischer himself. His >ego was an integral part of his becoming a World Champion, along with his genius >at the board--and it seems that this same ego contributed to his fall from >grace. Could it have been fear of losing to Karpov that kept him from playing >competitive chess again? It has been argued that Spassky was never the chess >player of all of the prior Soviet Champions. no what happened to fischer is not new .the very greatest chess players for some reason seem to lose their minds . look at morphy .that is also why computers will eventually be the best because only computers have nerves of steele .chess is too complicatd for the human mind .
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