Bobby Fischer

Josh Waitzkin - Psychology Today Interview With Scott Barry Kaufman

ALCHEssMIST (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008

Josh Waitzkin Author of - " The Art Of Learning " Subject of the book and film - " Searching for Bobby Fischer " Psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman has recently written a very interesting article called " Confessions of a Late Bloomer " (Psychology Today, Nov-Dec 2008) where he briefly mentions Josh Waitzkin. Kaufman also writes a blog for Psychology Today , called " Beautiful Minds ", where he reports...

A look back at a phenom

Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008

Photo by Paul Truong Hikaru, the best home grown American GM since Bobby Fischer, is a member of a back to back Bronze medalist team (Turin and Dresden Olympiads). Here is a look back at when he became the youngest master in the U.S. at age 10: April 12, 1998 Chess Master, 10, Sets Record By MERRI ROSENBERG HIKARU NAKAMURA, a 10-year-old fourth grader at Ridgeway School in White Plains, was recently...

Bob Wade 1921-2008

Streatham & Brixton Chess Club (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008

News came through earlier today of the death of Bob Wade at the age of 87. Bob was many things to many different people: an International Master, author, coach, Olympiad stalwart, librarian extraordinaire, voluble lefty, Athenaeum regular and Bobby Fischer's chief truffle hound. (Copyright Bob Miller/Barry Martin) He was also an arbiter of note and was regularly master of ceremonies at the annual London...

Searching for Bobby Fischer (FBI style)

Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008

FBI Went Searching For Bobby Fischer By Joe Filippazzo November 12th, 2008 MATCH MAKER: Fidel Castro (with some help) beat Bobby Fischer during the chess prodigy's 1966 visit to Havana. The trip became the subject of an FBI probe. The FBI investigated American chess champion Bobby Fischer in the 1960s after the Cold War icon created a controversy at a tournament in Cuba, where he famously played against...

Teen YouTube sensation cashes in with ads and product placement

CNET.co.uk (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008

Lucas Cruikshank is to user-generated video what Tiger Woods was to golf or what Bobby Fischer was to chess when they were teenagers, Not only has he risen to fame in a field dominated by adults, but he has managed to turn that success into cold, hard cash. The 15-year old creator of the YouTube series Fred has become Internet video's hottest prodigy since last month, when the Fred channel amassed...

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A global impact

Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Cold War in Reykjavik as Fischer breaks Soviet defender Spassky Boris Spassky v Bobby Fischer: 64 alternately black and white squares became the unlikely battleground in 1972 as the champion, from Russia, defended his title against a brilliant but eccentric American, writes Damian Cullen SO, WHICH rivalry had the biggest influence on the world? The impact of the most high-profile...

Cinderella - The Most Beautiful Runner

BlogXilla.com (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008

The light skinned track star from Clark Atlanta thought she could beat me in bones because she was from California. Little did she know that Yahoo! Games has made me into the Bobby Fischer of Dominoes. So I made her a little wager, whoever loses a game had to take off an article of clothing. [...]

Dodger Thoughts: Moneyball the Movie Is Alive and Well - With Brad Pitt

Baseball Toaster (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008

My Variety colleague Tatiana Siegel reports that the film version of Michael Lewis' book Moneyball is moving forward, with none other than Brad Pitt joining on to star. David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada) will direct, and Steve Zaillian (Schindler's List, Searching for Bobby Fischer, American Gangster) will do the screenplay.

The Presidential Election, Three Weeks Out

First Drafts (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008

During one of his more lucid moments, World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer observed, “People have been playing below strength against me for years.” It’s a shrewd statement that repays parsing; it essentially poses the question, Were Fischer’s best opponents playing, as their defenders alleged, at a lower than usual level when they lost to [...]

World chess championship gets underway

Later On (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008

And I didn’t even know. Here’s some background: The long awaited (among chess fans anyway) match between Viswanathan Anand of India and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia begins today. To fully understand the importance of this match, let me lay some history on you. In 1972 Bobby Fischer played defending champion Boris Spassky for the title. After twenty-one [...]

Chance to break jinx

Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008

Anand’s chance to silence Kramnik Rakesh Rao The Hindu Online edition of India's National Newspaper Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008 BONN: They are two of a kind. In the world of chess, they have done enough to be counted among the greats. Viswanathan Anand, the strongest non-Soviet player after Bobby Fischer up against Vladimir Kramnik, the man who dethroned Garry Kasparov, arguably the strongest player the...

A street to be named after Bobby Fischer

Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008

What’s In A Name? 13 October 2008 Wars, revolutions and regime changes - they’re all recorded in the oft-neglected street signs of Belgrade. By Pat Andjelkovic In 1977 it was hard to convince my French friends in Paris that I wasn’t out of my mind moving to Yugoslavia. Like true Frenchmen, they were concerned that I wouldn’t have enough to eat, or at least anything good to eat. My family “preko bare”...

Sounds like an intriguing book

Later On (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

Andrew Hearst: I wrote a post last year about my father’s professional chess career in the ’50s and ’60s and his connection to Bobby Fischer. At the end of that post, I mentioned that he’s spent many years working on a big, definitive book about blindfold chess—the art of playing without sight of the board or [...]

It may have been his DNA

Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

Bobby Fischer's Idiosyncrasies May Well Have Been In His DNA By SHELBY LYMAN October 7, 2008 In a 2006 documentary about Bobby Fischer , Gudmundur Thorarinsson, former President of the Icelandic Chess Federation, evokes Fischer with a quote from Shakespeare: "I could be bound in a nutshell," declares Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, "and count myself king of infinite space." Few people have been more self-defined...

American heroes

Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

Another kind of hero At the wonderful Beijing Olympics we had a great American hero who emerged with eight gold medals in swimming - Michael Phelps . It took 36 years for someone to break Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals. Also in 1972, the genius chess champion Bobby Fischer won the world title in Iceland. Spitz and Fischer were featured in every major magazine and newspaper and they both...