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Posted by derman53 kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 03:34:24 Play online chess	Subject: Bobby Fisher Dead Message: He died in Iceland at the age of 64 the BBC is reporting.
Posted by calmrolfe kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 03:58:42 Play online chess	Message: I believe Bobby Fischer died on Thursday but the news is only being released today. He will leave a lasting legacy of brilliancies behind him and can be rightly proud that millions of new players were attracted into Chess due to his exploits over the chessboard.
Posted by ccmcacollister kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 04:02:45 Play online chess	A BBC report of Jan 18, 2008 Message: It actually says 12 minutes ago, on the release, but that must mean from time of the release. BBC report ... news.bbc.co.uk dup for pasting news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7195840.stm ——— A tragic knight — The London Chess Classic, a fabulously organized eight-player elite tournament, shaped up as a confrontation between two great chess grandmasters, the top-rated Magnus Carlsen of Norway and the former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia. By the luck of draw, they met in the first round, and Carlsen won. The Norwegian GM was still in a clear lead on Sunday with four points in five rounds, a full point ahead of Kramnik. U.S. chess champion Hikaru Nakamura drew four games and lost one. The tournament concludes Tuesday. The Carlsen-Kramnik duel looked like a perfectly played game by the Norwegian, who took advantage of Kramnik's stranded knight. "If one piece is ...
Posted by ketchuplover kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 04:04:15 Play online chess	Message: R.I.P. Bobby ——— A Game Lasts 163 Moves, and That's Not Even a Record — Chess professionals are conditioned to games that take four to five hours and last about 50 moves, but occasionally play lasts much longer and the contest becomes a war of attrition. That is what happened between Nigel Short and Luke McShane of England in the first round of the London Chess Classic, which started on Tuesday. McShane, who had White, got a tiny advantage out of the opening, but Short defended well, and after 60 moves it seemed as if the game would end in a draw. But McShane, 25, persisted and Short, 44, was forced to continue to defend. It took McShane seven hours, and 163 moves, but he finally broke Short and forced him to resign. That ...
Posted by bucklehead kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 04:28:50 Play online chess	It is all over now. Message: He has finally given his (many) enemies the slip; that must be of some comfort to his troubled soul. Perhaps he can now debate Steinitz and the Almighty about who's stronger against pawn and move odds. Rest, Bobby. ——— Soviet training methods still reign in the chess world — Two decades after the USSR broke up, Soviet training methods remain potent at the chess board. When the field of 128 was reduced to the quarter-finals in the current World Chess Cup, all eight grandmasters remaining had their education from Soviet coaches. The final four-game match now in progress to decide who qualifies for the 2010 candidates is between Ukraine's Ruslan Ponomariov, who won the 2002 World Cup as a teenager, and Boris Gelfand, the 41-year-old top seed. In the semi-finals Ponomariov beat Vlad Malakhov 4-2 while Gelfand eliminated Sergey Karjakin 2-0. In both the semi-final and in the game below the Israeli chess veteran defeated ...
Posted by ccmcacollister kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 04:37:16 Play online chess	More articles, pics, Kasparov comments: Message: www.foxnews.com "The tragedy is that he left this world too early, and his extravagant life and scandalous statements did not contribute to the popularity of chess," Kasparov told The Associated Press. ******* A different angle and picture while playing chess at www.chron.com Houston Chronical Chron.com ************************************** ——— Bennett and King on chess: Carlsen-Nakamura, BNbank Blitz, 2009 — The London Chess Classic, the strongest chess tournament to be held in this country for 25 years, begins today at Olympia. Magnus Carlsen, the brilliant 19-year-old Norwegian, is one of the favourites, but he was dealt a psychological blow when he lost to one of the other participants, US chess champion Hikaru Nakamura, in a blitz tournament in Oslo 10 days ago. Carlsen played the classier chess, but Nakamura proved to be the better hustler. This was the game that turned the match around. Carlsen is threatening to queen the pawn, but Nakamura, with just a few seconds on his clock, found a win. RB: One of the first chess books I owned was Practical Chess Endings by ...
Posted by lynvingen kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 04:48:24 Play online chess	Message: R.I.P. ——— Itâ€™s Gelfand vs. Ponomariov for the World Chess Cup — Boris Gelfand of Israel and Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine will meet in the final of the World Chess Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. Gelfand easily beat Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine in the semifinals, winning his match 2 to 0, while Ponomariov outlasted Vladimir Malakhov of Russia in a playoff to grab the other final spot. Ponomariov actually fell behind in the tie-breaker, losing the first game, but he then came back to win the last three. Gelfand and Ponomariov were more experienced than their semifinal opponents, so their victories were not really a surprise. In fact, at the start of the World Chess Cup, the two were clearly among the favorites. Gelfand was the No. 1 seed, while ...
Posted by johnrowell kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 04:52:16 Play online chess	RIP Message: It's a fine line between genius and madness. Nevertheless in his latter years, his comments on today's chess were in my view very interesting.
Posted by dewillget8 kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 05:06:30 Play online chess	RIP Message: Very interesting man who will be missed.
Posted by far1ey kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 05:40:46 Play online chess	Message: A great chess player.
Posted by maurodos kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 05:52:50 Play online chess	Message: Despite his behaviour, or even his folly, an immortal player.
Posted by sorceress_queen kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 05:57:12 Play online chess	Message: only tears....
Posted by maurodos kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 06:03:00 Play online chess	Message: What do you mean?
Posted by ccmcacollister kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 06:38:08 Play online chess	Coaching Club comments ... Message: gameknot.com
Posted by skipwallace555 kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 07:39:47 Play online chess	SAD NEWS Message: BOBBY HAD HIS FAULTS BUT WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO OVERLOOK HIS GENIUS. I AM REALLY BUMMED. HE PLAYED TOO LITTLE AND LEFT TOO EARLY.
Posted by chessnovice kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 09:21:47 Play online chess	Message: Very sad news.
Posted by cairo kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 09:29:29 Play online chess	RIP Message: Bobby Fischer dies in Iceland 18.01.2008 – One of the world's greatest chess geniuses, Bobby Fischer, has died at the age of 64, Icelandic national TV and radio informed today. A spokesman for Fischer, Gardar Sverrisson, said the former world chess champion died in a Reykjavik hospital yesterday. The US-born former world chess player, who became famous around the world for beating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in 1972, had been seriously ill for some time. More details to follow soon... He was the reason for me playing this Royal game. Cairo
Posted by ccmcacollister kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 10:45:05 Play online chess	cairo ... Message: Soren, you are the 2nd person I've heard that from today. I was playing since 1968, but Bobby's match is also what started me to find out about US Chess Federation and play my first tournament then in 1972. I wonder how many of us did come to Chess or tournament play because of him? In the USA, it made a Golden Age of Chess here for the next decade following. Our USCF membership hit its highest ever, until that time. By the late 1980's chess was dwindling some in the Midwestern USA and some of our local Swiss tournaments might only bring 8 to 12 players at times. At most 22. But back in the early 70's, I recall playing in a Class D section that had almost that many in just that one class! What a great time for Chess here~! Finally, perhaps the late 90's, American Chess finally reached again the number of USCF members that were seen when Bobby was playing, and surpassed it. But if not for him, and the publicity he generated for the game during the 1972 match ... I don't think that 2nd period of popularity would ever have happened either, imo. Thanks to him, my hobby game became a lifetime pursuit for me too.
Posted by brulla kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 11:16:16 Play online chess	Chess even in the moment of death... Message: ...dying at the age of 64 (=8x8). He is my greatest chess idol, the stress being on "chess". He dominated the chess world after the 1970 Palma de Mallorca Interzonal like nobody before and almost nobody after him (except maybe Kasparov). May he find the peace now that he did not allow himself in this world. I keep only feelings of admiration, respect and fondness for his great chess play. I ignore any other Bobby Fischer.
Posted by brulla kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 11:16:36 Play online chess	Chess even in the moment of death... Message: ...dying at the age of 64 (=8x8). He is my greatest chess idol, the stress being on "chess". He dominated the chess world after the 1970 Palma de Mallorca Interzonal like nobody before and almost nobody after him (except maybe Kasparov). May he find the peace now that he did not allow himself in this world. I keep only feelings of admiration, respect and fondness for his great chess play. I ignore any other Bobby Fischer.
Posted by brulla kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 11:17:18 Play online chess	Chess even in the moment of death... Message: ...dying at the age of 64 (=8x8). He is my greatest chess idol, the stress being on "chess". He dominated the chess world after the 1970 Palma de Mallorca Interzonal like nobody before and almost nobody after him (except maybe Kasparov). May he find the peace now that he did not allow himself in this world. I keep only feelings of admiration, respect and fondness for his great chess play. I ignore any other Bobby Fischer.
Posted by brulla kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 11:28:21 Play online chess	Sorry... Message: ...for the three time post!
Posted by thunker kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 11:54:53 Play online chess	Kidney disease Message: was the latest I heard. my.earthlink.net
Posted by wschmidt kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 11:58:04 Play online chess	check out this video on youtube: Message: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjXKR6xVzAI It was done in 2006. Now it brings tears to my eyes.
Posted by fmgaijin kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 14:43:59 Play online chess	cairo and craig Message: I too was led to tournament chess by his games and his writings on chess. He wrote a column in "Boy's Life," the U.S. Boy Scout magazine, in the late 1960's that was my first window into the world of tournament chess. Though I had played since I was 5, not until I glimpsed that world throuigh Bobby's words and images did I think about playing "seriously."
Posted by ccmcacollister kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 15:24:35 Play online chess	3 more links (or pasties, if you prefer) Message: Link to MSNBC text, then Video. Bottom link is to a Bobby Fischer site. Text there on page one also gives 4 other Fischer sites which it says are not really connected to him!? I've not yet seen what they may say about this site. But picked it since it shows the others too. www.msnbc.msn.com msnbc.msn.com/id/22724870 www.msnbc.msn.com msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22728144#22728144 fischer fischer/jp
Posted by welinarias kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 19:29:10 Play online chess	Gran pérdida... Message: El mundo del Ajedrez está de luto. Una de sus Mentes más brillantes ha abandonado físicamente éste mundo. Sin embargo, Su breve pero genial legado estará por siempre viviente en toda la comunidad ajedrecista.
Posted by spymaster kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 20:13:55 Play online chess	Goodbye, Bobby Fischer Message: and now I miss my friend, Mr. Ed who has been supporting Bobby Fisher. Where are you, Mr. Ed? ~ spymaster
Posted by cascadejames kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 22:55:01 Play online chess	Message: I never gave up the hope that he would straighten out his personal life; return to tournament play; and stage a huge comeback. A totally irrational thought I know.
Posted by ionadowman kttstudios.com 1/19/2008 00:12:26 Play online chess	Though a Bobby Fischer unfan... Message: ... I will miss his presence in the Chess world. But then I've been missing it these 35 years. You had to admire what he achieved over the board. And I've always thought highly of the sportmanship he showed in his book of Memorable Games. What would the chess world have been like had he stayed in it competing as he could and ought? Robert James Fischer died in January 2008, but the "real" Bobby Fischer died the day after the Reykjavik match ended in 1972. Requiescat in pace. Ion
Posted by wschmidt kttstudios.com 1/19/2008 09:28:39 Play online chess	cascadejames, Message: I never really thought a comeback was possible. But I think there was a part of me that hoped he would find some peace before he died. That his demons would give him some rest. Ultimately that was probably just as unlikely as a chess comeback. fmgaijin, I'm fascinated to know he wrote a Boy's Life column. Anybody know a little more about that? How many columns? What level were they written for?
Posted by greenrat777 kttstudios.com 1/19/2008 18:52:21 Play online chess	Message: ROBERT JAMES ( BOBBY ) FISCHER ( 1943 - 2008 ) 11TH WORLD CHESS CHAMPION ( 1972 - 1975 )
Posted by fmgaijin kttstudios.com 1/19/2008 20:12:20 Play online chess	Boy's Life Column Message: RJF's column ran for three years--he gave it up in 1970 when he was admitted to the Interzonal in order to devote himself full-time to the pursuit of the World Championship cycle. The annotations and comments were understandable to players from perhaps 1200 and up, and he usually either analyzed one of his own games with a clear strategic plan capped by some cute tactics or a game by a strong junior player of the time like Rogoff. BTW, my best wishes also go out to my friend Miyoko Watai, Fischer's longtime companion. Watai-sama was formerly secretary of the Japan Chess Association as well as a good and kind friend.
Posted by apastpawn kttstudios.com 1/19/2008 21:44:36 Play online chess	MSNBC web page Message: is reporting that Fischer was trying thru GM Olafsson of Iceland to arrange a future match with Anand or Kasparov. Anand was interested but had not been able to schedule the match. Kasparov was busy with politics. The match was to take place in India and be possibly a Fischer Random event. The random style would level the field in my opinion. In other words, make up for RJF's lack of recent opening knowledge/updates. Would of been an interesting venue.
Posted by hewhomateswins kttstudios.com 1/21/2008 13:01:14 Play online chess	Message: RIP RJF
Posted by ccmcacollister kttstudios.com 1/21/2008 23:36:36 Play online chess	Wall Street Journal Article Message: with remarks of Susan Polgar cited, Bobby was very genial in person ... online.wsj.com online.wsj.com/article/SB120096385865905161.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Posted by ccmcacollister kttstudios.com 1/21/2008 23:56:33 Play online chess	articles USCF Message: main.uschess.org main.uschess.org/content/view/8125/431/ Above: Bisguire discussing Bobby main.uschess.org main.uschess.org/content/view/8126/431 ABOVE#2 affects WIJK, Portisch and others offer kind remarks
Posted by cairo kttstudios.com 1/22/2008 12:40:49 Play online chess	Kasparov Message: Garry Kasparov statement on the death of Bobby Fischer With the death of Bobby Fischer chess has lost one of its greatest figures. Fischer’s status as world champion and celebrity came from a charismatic and combative personality matched with unstoppable play. I recall thrilling over the games of his 1972 Reykjavik world championship match against Boris Spassky when I was nine years old. The American had his share of supporters in the USSR even then, and not only for his chess prowess. His outspokenness and individuality also earned him the quiet respect of many of my compatriots. Fischer’s beautiful chess and his immortal games will stand forever as a central pillar in the history of our game. And the story of the Brooklynite iconoclast’s rise from prodigy to world champion has few peers for drama. Apart from a brief and peculiar reappearance in 1992, Bobby Fischer’s chess career ended in 1972. After conquering the chess Olympus he was unable to find a new target for his power and passion. Fischer’s relentless energy exhausted everything it touched – the resources of the game itself, his opponents on and off the board, and, sadly, his own mind and body. While we can never entirely separate the deeds from the man, I would prefer to speak of his global achievements instead of his inner tragedies. It is with justice that he spent his final days in Iceland, the site of his greatest triumph. There he has always been loved and seen in the best possible way: as a chessplayer. Garry Kasparov Moscow – January 18, 2008 Cairo
Posted by ccmcacollister kttstudios.com 1/23/2008 05:25:29 Play online chess	Thanks M~! Message: www.chessclub.com www.chessclub.com/ mlazar sent me this link above which has video link to Fischer Remembered at the bottom of page, at ICC Was very good. About the best I have seen. With Anand re meeting with Bobby for burgers in Iceland, and ever gracious Sophia Polgar finally speaks, here. Also Jan Timman. Michael Adams. More ... And Nigel Short saying something sorta nice. Then ... 'of course I prefer Karpov for my hero' ... [Well I'm glad he's found religion anyway. "God is not a Bulgarian" haha. Nigel, you old softee!? So GM's can be funny :) ] Kasparov was very gracious, and fitting, too. Thanks for the post cairo ~! I had missed his comment entirely. }8-)
Posted by ccmcacollister kttstudios.com 1/23/2008 12:37:14 Play online chess	Message: Link to a Bobby Fischer site. Text there on page one also gives 4 other Fischer sites, which it says are not really connected to him!? I've not yet seen what They may say about This site that the Link is for?! But I picked IT for this LINK mostly because it does show the URL's for the others too. [They say the site has a regular, and a SHORT URL. Thus I list contact to both, since I have no idea what the ramifications may be for Short vs usual-length URL's ?!?] www.msnbc.msn.com msnbc.msn.com/id/22724870 www.msnbc.msn.com msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22728144#22728144 fischer fischer/jp
Posted by ccmcacollister kttstudios.com 1/23/2008 19:13:19 Play online chess	LINK ERROR ... Message: Only the bottom link of my last Jan. 23 post was correct to reach that Fischer site mentioned there. (The other two were to msnbc Fischer articles) The actual URL for it would be: www.fischer/jp.com . (Although the top one does have an interesting slide presentation of Fischer images, if you click LAUNCH on the photo found on the page there.)
Posted by ccmcacollister kttstudios.com 1/23/2008 19:23:54 Play online chess	ACTUALLY ... Message: The URL www.fischer/jp.com is ALSO WRONG. For some reason I clicked PREVIEW and the Forum thread grabbed everything and actually POSTED it here without previewing, before I could check the link. Sorry. That should be URL that is simply= fischer.jp which I just now used, preceeded by the usual h t t p : / / but not needing any www Good Night~!!
Posted by ccmcacollister kttstudios.com 1/30/2008 03:39:04 Play online chess	I've been Message: watching for something like this about RJF and now it has appeared that some feel he may have fit a diagnosis of Aspergers Syndrome, a form of high functioning autism. www.udel.edu www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html
Posted by ccmcacollister kttstudios.com 1/30/2008 03:41:06 Play online chess	cont. ... Message: www.timesonline.co.uk www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3261419.ece