Author: Rory Nolan
Date: 18:01:18 08/20/02
Hello all I have posted this here as few people read the thinkers foruem. This is something that has been naggin' at me for some time now so when I 'cracked it' I thought I'd post it here esp. as you guys are smart and Fischer was supposed to think 'like a computer'. I have recently read the book 'fischer versus the russians' and having read thru it and also my 60 mem. games I realise ( as a psychiatric nurse with many years experience) that Fischaer has aspergers symdrome!! Read on and see if you agree. Asperger's syndrome is a form of autism and is usually associated with people with a moderate/high intellegence. This kind of person has a clear delination between 'right' and 'wrong' there are no 'grey' areas. (This could explain why Fiscer so often played on in drawn positions). People with aspergers are usually vey intense people who take people literally. I once told an aspergers patient of mine that I 'bit someone's head off 'when I was in a bad mood.. he recoiled in horror!!). People with aspergers have in recent times been very successful as computer programmers!!. Lile autism aspergers is dominant in males. Chess is particularly suited to people with aspergers and when I read the above books it became clear the Fischer sees chess not as an art form (e.g. like Bronstein) but as a problem to be solved, hence his narrow opening repotiore and his excellent endgame technique. This I feel is why he had particular problems against Tal. I also feel that he is very misunderstood ,he cannnot help himself, when he feels that a side is in the right he says so also when he feels a side is in the wrong he also says so, he doesn't hold a middle ground. This is also why he can't maintain interpersonal relationships, he's incapable of it. Please check out the many internet sources of aspergers and see if you agree. take care Rory Nolan
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