Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 22:36:40 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 said Bruce! How did that earthquake affect you up there?
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