Author: Jay Rinde
Date: 10:01:56 03/04/01
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On March 04, 2001 at 12:30:57, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On March 04, 2001 at 08:52:34, liam hearns wrote: > >>bobby fisher is a creative chess player who does not depend only on book >>knowledge,he would have outplayed and out witted the huge chess library d.b. he >>has never been given the huge credit he deserves for making chess so poplar,u >>here almost no mention of him during the great tournaments.perhaps he has his >>problems but chess is not for saints. > >Yes, and if had wings instead of arms he could outfly an F16, if he had wheels >instead of feet he could win the Indy 500, and if he had a rocket nozzle instead >of an ... > >Well, you get the idea. > >The problem here is that Fischer went nuts sometime prior to 1974, and threw >away his career, so nobody will know what he could have done had he *not* gone >nuts. It is so boring seeing posts that essentially start out with, "If Fischer >had not gone nuts, he could have ..." The problem is that he did go nuts. > >That's too bad, and it's a tragedy that he threw away his career and gave away >his money and became rabidly anti-semitic and became a complete paranoid, but >that's physical reality. Fischer did not have a career during the 80's and 90's >(discounting the one match with Spassky in '92), so there is no telling what he >could have done. > >And in any case, it doesn't really matter in the current context. I think that >the DB versus Kasparov match was a fluke result, so it's not necessary to find a >crazy person if you want to find someone who can beat it. > >But guess what, that's another case of something that threw away its career. >There's no telling what DB could have done, if the marketing dweebs hadn't >unplugged it. That machine is like a kid who stops playing the first time he >beats his dad. > >So now we are talking about two players that don't play and will probably never >play again. Talking about the future potential of people who may as well be >dead is incredibly boring. There was an opportunity there for a nice future. >That opportunity was squandered, and this is disappointing. I think that anyone >who decides that the way to deal with this disappointment is to live in the past >forever, is making a big mistake. > >bruce Well, of course we all know that Paul Morphy could have beaten DB. But, alas, not only did he go nuts but he died. But, who knows, maybe Paul came back as a computer called DB and beat Kasparov, fluke or no fluke. Jay
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