Author: Joseph Merolle
Date: 22:19:47 08/20/02
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Does the DSM IV recognize aspergers symdrome? What axis would fischer fall on? On August 20, 2002 at 21:01:18, Rory Nolan wrote: > >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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