Bobby Fischer: The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
ON CHESS Match generated fan participation Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:10 AM By SHELBY LYMAN The move-by-move coverage by PBS of the 1972 Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world-title series evoked an extraordinary response despite the apparent chess illiteracy of the American public. Viewers quickly learned the moves and basic rules. Those who didn't could at least follow the ebb and flow of each game...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Joe Weisenthal, Deputy Editor, The Business Insider Your Questions (8 min): How long can the Fed keep inflating the current bubble? They look to me quite breathless, recently. - Sir Lorenz Do you think the Republicans will win or lose net seats in Congress in the mid-term elections? Do you think Obama will win re-election? - Gordon Do you think the stock market will have an up or down year in 2010?...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Fi$cher family feud By ANDY SOLTIS Last Updated: 9:29 AM, November 15, 2009 Posted: 11:46 PM, November 14, 2009 NEARLY two years after Bobby Fischer's death, his tangled personal life is being sorted out in an Icelandic court. When Fischer died near Reykjavik in January 2007, he left an estate estimated at more than $2 million -- and no will. Most of the money came from his biggest payday -- his 1992...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Bobby Fischer died in January 2008, but his long, strange story is not over.
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Game was once a hit on television Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:29 AM By SHELBY LYMAN Chess seemed an unlikely candidate as a spectator sport when New York's PBS station announced its intended TV coverage of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world-championship match in 1972. There were the expected comments by pundits about "watching grass grow" or "watching paint dry." But the seven-week,...
The Closet Grandmaster (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Writing for the Skeptical Inquirer, Martin Gardner counts chess genius Bobby Fischer among those whom he considers both "extremely intelligent" as well as being "simple minded". Take, for example, Isaac Newton and A. C. Doyle. The former, being a Christian, apparently tried to calculate the exact date of the Second Coming; while the latter, wait for this, believed in fairies! Martin...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Fischer's daughter Jinky files claim to his estate Ms. Marilyn Young, the Filipina live-in partner of the late chess legend Bobby Fischer has come out with her comment on the news from Iceland regarding the decision of the Iceland Supreme Court recognizing the legality of the marriage of Fischer to the Japanese Miyoko Watai. Through her lawyer, Samuel Estimo, Ms. Young said, "It's well that Miyoko...
Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I am one of those people who, despite all the obvious advantages, dislikes virtual music libraries. I need to have the actual albums to get a feeling for the music, which otherwise sounds utterly inpersonal to me. Call me old-fashioned, but for the same reason I think a nice book – instead of a database [...]
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
An 'uncanny' aptitude for chess Wilton student is no ordinary player Posted on 11/05/2009 By LAUREN MYLO Hour Staff Writer Two weeks ago, Wiltonian Kapil Chandran beat a chess grandmaster who once beat legendary chess player Bobby Fischer. The next weekend, Kapil, 11, hosted a Halloween party with friends from Middlebrook School, where he is a student. Chandran is an ordinary boy despite his uncanny...
Streatham & Brixton Chess Club (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Mikhail Tal describes meeting Bobby Fischer at the Varna Olympiad, 1962 * :- I asked him all sorts of questions, and in conclusion, as we were approaching the hotel, I asked, “You’ll soon turn twenty – are you thinking of marrying?” He looked at me so trustingly: “This very problem is concerning me, and I don’t what to do. Buy a second-hand car or get married'”...
Eclecticity (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
In time Mr. Fischer became a horse's ass. Remember him? A short remembrance here. Idiot savant, sounds like. Thanks Maggie's Farm
Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Last Tuesday, in the Max Euwe Centre in Amsterdam, publisher Hanon W. Russell and author Karsten Müller officially presented their brand new book on Fischer: Bobby Fischer – The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion. ChessVibes was there to film the presentation and ask the author a few questions. Bobby Fischer – [...]
Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Halloween witch above courtesy of Theo High-end home stagers. The sad strange life of Bobby Fischer "Sustainability" Wars on campus. A new housing bubble? Your government is working on it. The guy who filmed the world's last hunter-gatherers
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
I just finished a nearly 4 hour filming for a new Bobby Fischer documentary. I think this one is quite different than other Fischer documentary in the past. I will let you know when it will be released. Chess news from Susan Polgar
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