Bobby Fischer Changed his Mind about Women in Chess (1972)

In an earlier interview, former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer said that women are terrible chess players, should be kept out of intellectual affairs and stay at home cleaning. In this interview from 1972, shortly before his World Championship against Boris Spassky, he seems to have changed his opinion somewhat.
#chess

[@BlindBishop]

Bobby Fischer's opinion on women in chess was VERY different some years earlier: kzbin.infoWXY9cOoHvtk?feature=share

[@uriuuishida]

First video was a blunder

[@SlashMMR]

@@uriuuishida LOL

[@tristancole8158]

That was a joke

[@terrylemaster8151]

Yes. It is human nature to change your opinions as you learn and mature

[@xulapostasy7132]

Clearly he was joking. I guess many don't get his humour

[@Fck_the_atf]

Bro had a Character development arc💀

[@sanz.9805]

😂💀

[@neelanshsharma8403]

Chatacter devolvement arc

[@pumpkinthecat8109]

minus jews dont ask him about jews

[@Fck_the_atf]

@@neelanshsharma8403 character* I hate that word. Its like Wednesday and bologna.

[@aytony4090]

​@momsphone I don't know about that. A lot of jews were given preferential treatment in chess for a period of time which peeved a bunch of players.

[@TweetyFam]

Bobby was just making sure not to blunder his Queen

[@triggerwarning859]

Ha... I see what you did there

[@mihailmilev9909]

Heheh

[@jahanbaxter]

Genius comment

[@elmajdoubissam4855]

Brilliant move

[@king_of_badassness]

​@@elmajdoubissam48552000 elo move

[@meetlejuice8865]

This feels very different to the other video I saw of Bobby saying that a woman's place is in the home.

[@stt.9433]

He become more and more extreme as his schizophrenia developed.

[@zaonetheonly]

fr i was like "bro you changed?"

[@hamzaf19]

​@@kendanzan8088 true

[@alesiswhite9010]

Those statements are not contradictory

[@zlatan_2197]

Why is this reply section full of misogynists stuck in the 1940's

[@ekklesiast]

Nobody is going to comment about Nona Gaprindashvili? She was the best female player and she was mentioned in the "Queen's gambit" as a woman player who never played against a man, which was a blatant lie. It's funny how a tv show that is supposed to be a pro-women has actually humiliated a real famous female chess player.

[@bobing1752]

First ever female GM by the way. And it's litterally impossible to get the GM title without playing GMs, even though I don't know much about her I know she must have competed with men.

[@efarjeonfgc]

Gotta story it up for the story I guess. "NO, OUR CHARACTER, NOT THE HISTORICAL FIGURE IS REALLY GOOD AT CHESS"

[@criticaljacques2237]

I thought Judit Polgar was the best female player?

[@bobing1752]

@@criticaljacques2237 she was the best female player ever when she was playing. Judit Polgar surpassed her of course, but she came later. Nona Gaprindishvilli was the first ever woman to become a GM.

[@peterjames232]

True

[@WinterMute99]

When Bobby Fischer said that a women’s place is at home, he of course means in the living room with a chess board and a couple good books

[@jal1ilaa]

LMAOOOOO

[@xDEEZKNIGHTSx]

Good save. Good save lol 😅

[@Durian_Defense]

And a DGT board. Plus a subscription to Chessable with multiple paid courses. Can't forget those.

[@JohnHudert1]

exactly where I like to be! Don’t forget the hot cup of tea and a good dog or cat!

[@tolistheantiguru5155]

Guys just to make it clear people change throughout their live the interview that he said all those sexist things was way older than this around 7-10 years so it makes sense

[@benjastuff1347]

No, in the first interview he talked about how women are not good at chess. In this one he talked about how they are welcome in chess. Two different discussions.

[@tolistheantiguru5155]

I think you didn’t actually see the video he called on the player really good

[@benjastuff1347]

@@tolistheantiguru5155 i don't understand your english

[@tolistheantiguru5155]

He called a female player really good at chess

[@benjastuff1347]

@@tolistheantiguru5155 probably because she was when he had that interview.

[@jackhandma1011]

When Bobby Fischer realized he has no enemies...

[@alexmason6207]

no one has them..

[@stormtrain11]

Bobby Fischer has enemies. The Jews are his enemies. More correctly, he is the enemy of the Jews. Bobby Fischer is an auto anti-Semitic holocaust denier.

[@RahulSharma-ot3wo]

Bobby watched vinland saga

[@mustafomahmudov7940]

... Left

[@listener8228]

The Jews

[@bobing1752]

Oh wow Fischer's opinions on the matter evolved so well! He seemed to get wiser with age, I can't wait to hear what he had to say when he grew older!

[@jesusthroughmary]

He just got older and wiser for sure

[@BlindBishop]

Underrated joke 😂

[@zakir2815]

"I'm much smarter now, much much smarter"

[@dummyguy123]

LMAO

[@thelonewanderer4084]

He stayed anti-Semitic tho

[@kurodoggi3315]

theres two people fighting for control in his head

[@fsexplorer9727]

Or he could have changed for the better? Man, the moment you criticize modern day fascism, everybody starts to hate you and call you anti-semetic.

[@kem3047]

And they are both gay and they are kissing

[@BountBhocula]

It's the duality of chess. On 64 squares, in terms of wits, bobby was an absolute apex predator. Chess being his whole identity, I could imagine it being hard to socialize with people without the need for asserting absolute dominance.

[@fsexplorer9727]

@@BountBhocula Yep, this is true for most exclusive-ish sports, where seeing humility among the best is rare. You can see this in Magnus flexing on everyone.

[@Force1Com]

I'm sure if he saw how women voted biden into office, and the damage done, the fight for control would be over

[@kevinzhang5135]

No one gonna talk about how he managed to make a loop out of an interview? That’s crazy

[@BlindBishop]

Thanks man 😊

[@dwsel]

It's rising in popularity to cut the ending into the beginning, so it seems to loop smoothly.

[@christiantaylor1495]

​@@dwselbut its hard woth an already made video

[@YewBoy]

brilliant move !!

[@Flugs0]

@@dwsel why do people do that? is it to trick people into watching the short again?

[@Malc277]

The way he laughed after he said “I’d welcome some girls in chess” killed me. Some of the chess bros can’t find a lady they would love women to play they could maybe meet one 😂

[@barnabasfarakas7376]

Bobby Fischer redemption arc

[@shallowedx]

He didnt need to be redeemed. Coming from a woman btw

[@mithos789]

redemption of what? top 50 players are men. how far until chicks start showing up on the list.

[@thomasinefitzpatrick]

Lol... dude didnt say anything contradictory. He just gave SOME credit where it was due. People make more of it than it was

[@Cyborg_Lenin]

​@@mithos789fheynhave been on the list for a while, but sexism isn't just some people being mean, women aren't encouraged to play and they are socialized to feel were then male players.

[@spicyseliph]

Is his antisemitism a redemption now? Just say you hate Jews and stop lying to us

[@bobpoop6025]

wholesome Fischer

[@deevnn]

Nope...

[@yesyouareright9800]

I want zionist hating fischer

[@LizaFan]

Not really. Vapid denialism about sexism in chess.

[@gooddognigel9992]

@@LizaFan boohoo

[@zakir2815]

​@@LizaFan given the choice, women will choose to play chess vastly less than men. Therefore they will never beat the best players on the planet.

[@caelintredoux2249]

Looks like Patrick Bateman’s arch nemesis in American Psycho, Craig McDermott. Lmao

[@strandedone7419]

We don't have amateurs - beginner goes straight to GM then :D

[@grottphd9090]

Well in a lot of sports the competitions require licenses or some kind of organizational backing to compete at the pro levels, whereas in chess there's no hard division between different levels of competition, its mostly just fide rating. That's probably what he means

[@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406]

In chess if yiur new, yiu should know smt. Fide doesn't give a shit They're gonna put you into the same category as those 2700 elos. Unless age group stuff, but after 18 you kind of gotta play open tournament with cracked players. There's no real category for amateurs

[@ahmadhanif136]

It just means that the competition is much more intense. Who is gifted, who is diligent, who is talented will be up the ladder. Who is weak will be at the bottom. Simple. Man? Woman? If you are not good, then you are nothing.

[@ifbfmto9338]

Compared to Bobby Fischer, anyone much below GM level was essentially an amateur That’s just how supremely talented he was 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@zoa666]

The man was a certified genius who just happened to play chess, and got good at it. It’s as simple as that.

[@MicahHeard]

For someone who dedicated nearly ALL of his free time to chess and had a minimal social life, he was VERY charismatic.

[@deanwilliams433]

Everyone brings up the other video of the same question asked when he was younger. This might be shocking to younger people today, but people do grow and change as they mature.

[@ekklesiast]

he didn't change, that other interview doesn't contradict this one. just because most women aren't good at chess, doesn't mean chess is a sexist game or that there are no women who are good at chess.

[@markn.7914]

"My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world." - Bobby Fischer, March 10, 1999

[@SimonASNG]

@@ekklesiast Exactly correct. No change of opinion required. Even today the rankings show that the top woman player loses against the top 100 men.

[@Tobias8842]

@@SimonASNG that’s simply because more men play chess, and men play chess more competitively than women. Women have the same capacity to be good at chess but they tend to pick up other hobbies and interests

[@cranker7754]

​@@Tobias8842 no they don't, otherwise there would have been a woman that was top 10 in chess among men - which never happened. Men and women aren't wired the same mentally, i don't get this obsession with having to be exactly the same and equal in everything in our lives instead of just living normal lives in our gender roles. Women and men are equal in importance, but not equal in capacity and behaviour or barely anything else.

[@mroboba]

Nona Gaphrindashvili is a 5 time world champion from Georgia, where I'm from. She is still alive and well 🇬🇪

[@Godi888]

That's the most American question that one could possibly even asked someone 🤣🤣

[@keithwilson6060]

“Chess is a sexist game?” “I don’t think so. I welcome bitches in chess.”

[@r011ing_thunder6]

😂

[@VivaRafaafaRaviV]

Lmao😂😂😂

[@jackmakila3776]

Chess is segregated now though

[@qualicumjack3906]

@@jackmakila3776 But men and women are mentally equal, why would it be segregated?

[@watherby29]

Chess does not require strength so women should compete with men in the same tournament

[@narenxdr]

Bro got character development

[@dymitrdamecki8116]

"Those who never change their minds, never change anything."

[@deevnn]

Doesn't apply here...wake up.

[@Vingul]

If you’re thinking of that older clip where he talks about women and chess, these things are not contradictory. «Chess is wide open» and that women are welcome in chess does not mean that they are as good at it as men are. Clearly they aren’t.

[@kieranfarrell1656]

​@@Vingul is there a reliable scientific study you can show me that woman are not as good at chess?

[@Vingul]

​@@kieranfarrell1656 LOL, I don't know any such study, but you can have a look at the rankings of chess players. If you're at all familiar with the world of chess, you know this to be true. I am of course not saying that all men are better than all women or some such nonsense. Many women are much better than I could ever be, for instance. But I think you know what I mean.

[@SimonASNG]

They are both the same opinion, no change required. Chess is an open sport and women are welcome to play, they just are not very good. Very few women make it into the top ranks. The top ranking woman is way down the list with many many men ahead of her. Don't get me wrong, the top few women can probably beat the average guy, but the top men destroy the top women.

[@Alok1619]

Podcasts Then ✅ Podcasts Now ❌

[@valdemircjr]

When he said women suck at chess he was an imature teen. We all think and say stupid things when we're young

[@timerunhistory2604]

No don’t use youth as an excuse lmao Bobby was a chess great but an awful human being. Idolized hitler denied the holocaust etc

[@hiranom20]

It's likely he still had the same opinion in this clip knowing Bobby tbh. But at this age, I'm assuming he was in his 30s, he had aged up enough to know when to put on a filter lol

[@arcanefire7511]

He wasnt a teen lmao

[@a.9492]

​@aha because the ratio of players of male and female is vastly different in chess . If I pick 100 A people and 2 B people , and 10 A people win while no B people does , doesn't mean A are better , just means you picked more of them😊

[@nobodyharder6575]

​@@a.9492 It means women in general don't have the same level of interest/obsession on chess that men have, which at the end of the day does make them worse.

[@remveel2443]

That’s literally the beauty of chess. Anyone willing to play it can play it

[@nejiross]

This is a good opportunity to see that it is okay to change opinions over time. Its like seeing a politician have a different opinion from 15 years ago and saying "LOOK THEY ARE INCONSISTENT" when in reality people change their views overtime. This is good!

[@anaximanderofapollonia9842]

And how exaclty did he change his opinion?

[@benjieweisberg1617]

He said jews did 9/11

[@ConsumeristScroffa]

@@anaximanderofapollonia9842 Do you need to answer that in order to believe he changed his opinion? People can mature after nearly a decade. If you haven't realized that with yourself yet, then something's up.

[@anaximanderofapollonia9842]

@@ConsumeristScroffa Yes, I do. Because, what he says here is not the opposite of what he said in "Bobby Fischer on women." Yet for some reason, people think it is.

[@ConsumeristScroffa]

@@anaximanderofapollonia9842 That was my first thought as well. But didn't he say in the 1st interview that that he doesn't believe women are good at chess? This does contradict the listing of women who are good at chess if you think about it. And that's why I changed my mind. He did change.

[@nicbentulan]

Nice job w/ the update. God bless you. God bless Bobby Fischer. God bless America. God bless you. Happy Eastertide!

[@_RDMPTN]

I can see he had a character adjustment. They put him in line since his earlier comments on women.

[@Schieman]

No one put him in line He learnt with experience and said what he thought...

[@randomuruk7230]

Nothing he said here contradicts his other statement.

[@DanFrederiksen]

No he didn't change his mind :) ask him if they are better than he is :)

[@Zenith9132]

Of course they werent 🤣. Specifically at the time this interview was recorded, Fischer was a good 100+ points higher rated than world number 2, Spassky (Spassky was in the high 2600's while Fischer was approaching 2800). To assert that the best female player Nona (~2300) was 'better' than Spassky let alone Fischer would be extremely stupid.

[@S.D.323]

Well pretty much Noone is to be fair

[@ajitesh5278]

No man was better than he is at the time so what's your point ?

[@DanFrederiksen]

@@ajitesh5278 that the best are men, obviously.

[@googlefaps5883]

He did. It went from women shouldn’t play chess. To they can play chess. That’s a difference. And that’s shows some growth

[@dawn21stcentury]

Why does KZbin keep saying '0 comments'??

[@user-ct9tp2ck2j]

its a bug

[@dawn21stcentury]

@@user-ct9tp2ck2j Ok. But this bug's been persistent.

[@user-ct9tp2ck2j]

@@dawn21stcentury yea well sometimes it is, but its ok as the bug doesnt matter much.

[@samuelking4723]

No comment.

[@balazsio]

To make you write a comment.

[@Merica1776o]

“They’re welcome, but I’d still dunk on them in chess”

[@user-ut5bh1qw6q]

Same guy that said women shouldn't take part in intellectual affairs 😂

[@kendanzan8088]

And ? They shouldn’t

[@kelpokonsultti]

@@kendanzan8088 Bro I don’t think you’re that intellectually talented either if you think that women shouldn’t take part in intellectual affairs..

[@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406]

​@@kendanzan8088 this is guy is very dumb. Even fischer doesn't think that anymore lol

[@kendanzan8088]

@@kelpokonsultti was just trolling

[@kendanzan8088]

@@kelpokonsultti now stop simping

[@sabaeliba8916]

Nona Gafrindashvili is a Georgian chess player but in that time Georgia was part of the Solviet Union. I just mentioned it because I am from the same country.

[@joec3537]

Beautiful country btw. What a gem! Best wine in the world too.

[@lord.d1_]

Flashback: "Are women good chess players?" Bobby: Oh, they're terrible chsss players!

[@day-bu2ms]

Bobby:And now i am grow up

[@zeldeure1765]

​@@day-bu2msNah, he was right the first time. They're not even in the top 100.

[@toxpov3612]

​@@zeldeure1765 why are you talking when you know nothing about chess lmao

[@vibovitold]

@@zeldeure1765 i love that "even" : ) like being in the world's top 100 is some sort of a minimum achievement and there have been exceptions to that (Polgar was #7 if i recall). anyway, while women are obviously weaker players on average, t's hardly the same as being "terrible players" who "lose every single game against a man", and these are the things Fischer said back in the 1960s.

[@busTedOaS]

they can be both welcome and bad at the game. what's the conflict? do you think we should not accept players of all levels? not sure who's the discriminating one here.

[@bornfaya3030]

This video made my day!! Great editt! Great. Make more

[@nicolaspeigne1429]

KZbin recommanding two Fischer's videos one right after the other.

[@alwaysbored1700]

Its like what happened to Kanye, he probably just watched wonder woman

[@OliveReal]

Good ending

[@phoenix_waffles2122]

I don’t think chess should be divided via gender

[@krillin6]

Sexism was and still is VERY prolific in chess.

[@lopave6]

Yep, it is very prolific, nature is very sexist. Nature made men better chess players than women.

[@nimrodszocs2795]

it isnt its just that on average women are worse its just simple statistics… anyone can play with anyone

[@alexkid5092]

It’s about intelligence

[@alyaaearth4755]

Memory ...

[@steef6074]

Fischer lost his mind later in his career. Sad to see. His statements about jews and women were all made in a stage where he wasn’t himself anymore. He trained Judith Polgar, who was a jewish female chess player. Would be a bit off if he truly believed chess wasn’t for women

[@ComradeChams]

Clearly you haven't understood what he was saying. He was from Jewish decent, his mother was Jewish and he was antizionist and against settlers colonialism making statements showing the illegitimate existance of the USA and Israel, you should read more about his political views from unbiased sources.

[@cbandit7715]

@@ComradeChams no he was antisemetic and he joijed the worldwide church of god too

[@1994mrmysteryman]

His statements about women were made BEFORE this interview when he was much younger.

[@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406]

​@@ComradeChams nah, fischer broke the law. His country should have backed him up though, when he did. But anyway fischer was part Jew. But was very much against them, when started to act like a different person , Fischer exclamated that all Jews were coming out to get him.

[@valdemircjr]

Bro, he was like 19 years old when he said women dont belong in chess. We all said stupid things when we were teens.

[@EL-ISS]

I reckon he watches his older video and cringes at his response. To go from that to this is hilarious 😂.

[@CMBullet2004]

Bobby Fischer is one of the rare GMs I look up to

[@Minaer100]

Time traveller moves a rock Reality:

[@alperen880]

Dude, this is best comment for video

[@Kadeclipse]

Its interesting how he said his previous statements as a 19-year old, and now.. its entirely different.

[@Ali-wx6id]

It's not different

[@Kadeclipse]

@@Ali-wx6id it is

[@omarbaassiri8689]

@@Kadeclipse it's not different. In this video, he pointed to the exceptions he mentioned in the previous video.

[@avisdunrandom]

It think you miss the part that he say in the first video that "woman can't beat men in high elo" (change his word to simplify it) And in this video he said : "woman are welcome to play chess". These sentences aren't oppose since his statement is basically : woman can play chess but aren't good enough to be at the peak of chess ranking". Sadly for what you can say but history prove it since few woman manage to be in "high elo" but those woman aren't not even in the peak. But don't get me wrong these woman will destroy any average person but they aren't good enough to pretend to be the best chess player while those who can pretend for this title were only men.

[@CheriTheBery]

​@@avisdunrandomThe fact of the matter is that the female brain is different and works differently from the male brain. Males tend to be better at hyper focusing on one thing whilst females are way better at multitasking than males generally. Obviously the former is better for chess.

[@DamonCaulfied]

Character development fr fr

[@mohamedhesham0x196]

Seems like he received an attack from the matrix or somthin

[@biilal]

Bro changes team 😭

[@day-bu2ms]

Just wait You turn 10yo real man to human

[@rocky-ie7li]

Bro listened to beatles once

[@bobxyzp]

“Chess isn’t a sexist game just all the women who play happen to suck.”-Bobby Fischer

[@joephillippe]

also bobby fischer- was mentally ill

[@zensvienna9007]

​@@joephillippestill, a very smart dude

[@viharikrishnan5588]

@@joephillippehe was never mentally ill why did you even say that ?

[@user-is3yn7xr4c]

​@@joephillippe armchair psychologist

[@slimjimmyification]

This could easily fit into the same interview with no contradictions.

[@kallocarina8879]

Character development

[@aleksandarpavkov]

Thats what smart people do - they change their opinions when they find out new things

[@tristancole8158]

Or they make jokes

[@memesThatDank]

changing your right opinion to a wrong one is never smart

[@thetrickster9885]

​@@memesThatDank how can a opinion be "right". If its right its a fact.

[@doomsfn.2145]

​@@memesThatDank are you saying this clip is wrong 💀

[@memesThatDank]

@@doomsfn.2145 yes

[@seanb3226]

I feel like Fischer had a sanity/crazy meter that started at neutral and progressively went up the crazy side as he got old. Like he was always a little nutty but he didn't truly become nuts until his later years, which is when his madness peaked.

[@SpicyMelonYT]

That loop cut is just savage

[@Prometheus97_]

Why do I never hear these American accents anymore

[@Emerald_Forge]

Pretty much every accent changes

[@moongoddessjuno]

It’s a fake accent that they put on.

[@user-is3yn7xr4c]

​@@moongoddessjunoputting fake accent 24/7?

[@f1ah]

Conclusion: they are welcome to play but they're not as good

[@BLEX_EDITS1]

Nona gaprindashwili is a georgian chess player and im from georgia too, she is a very talented player and i feel very nice that bobby actually mentioned her

[@sirinee05]

fun fact, Bobby Fischer's mom had a PhD in medicine, and was a very successful doctor and a researcher.

[@valuxlevelux5618]

ok she could study and memorize.

[@sirinee05]

@@valuxlevelux5618 don't be idiotic it's not a highschool degree we're discussing it's a PhD which requires several years of advanced study beyond a bachelor's or master's degree. It typically involves completing coursework, conducting original research, and writing a dissertation based on that research. Dw I'll simplify it more for you to understand, she conducting an original research in her feild and wrote about it to get it.

[@sirinee05]

@@valuxlevelux5618 yeah says you. Because there's nothing to support this idea, it doesn't even have a base like depending on what exactly are you generalizing that every single degree in every single county in every single level is based on pure memorization and not intellectual activities? Because that is so far away from the truth. And saying this only proved me how far from reality you are and how you don't even know what you're talking about. Because you're basically implying that anyone can get a PhD as long as they just study and memorize and not use their brain at all.

[@sirinee05]

+ If you're ready to use valid arguments then go ahead but don't give me some statements made by random ppl or you who have no place and enough knowledge to make such a rule about something so out of their knowledge.

[@sirinee05]

@@valuxlevelux5618 medicine they don't apply knowledge?💀💀💀 And what does that even have to do with what we're discussing 💀

[@Robert-gp8gf]

One parent's role is to be a homemaker. It doesn't matter which, as long as everything is accomplished. It is so weird that so many people look down on people from a time period when one person could earn enough to support a family, instead of both parents needing two jobs to just stay afloat. Your anger is at the system, not at the family.

[@andygotthebass6525]

Both can work. Two people can support a home after children are a certain age usually

[@Basilisk4119]

Bloody hell, he's changed his tune

[@Foxtrot6624]

He was a very eccentric person but even in that old clip you can kind of tell he’s winding up the interviewer and giving him answers that he know will annoy him.

[@yesyouareright9800]

@@Foxtrot6624 he still has the same thoughts, women aren't as good as men in chess and that is it

[@Foxtrot6624]

@@yesyouareright9800 Women are as good at chess as children, however many social circumstances discourage women from playing chess. Percentage wise women are represented in the rankings fairly well. We simply haven’t seen many wcc contending women because so little women pursue chess professionally. That attitude has been rapidly changing and we will see another one soon.

[@yesyouareright9800]

@@Foxtrot6624 nope they are not, and social “problems” are not an excuse, if you stay away from chess just because you think people will judge you then you will never get even a fide master title with that mentality, men are better at chess both mentally and genetically

[@Foxtrot6624]

@@yesyouareright9800 lmfao you’re more than welcome to keep thinking that you delusional little child. Did you get best up by a girl at school yesterday? That why you’re so mad at them?

[@itsbigbad2050]

It’s wild to me to see how normal he seemed to be during interviews. He looked like a fun guy to be around. Maybe that was because of the cameras idk

[@andrewkarsten5268]

I am loving this comment section. So many people arguing over the “correctness” of Bobby’s comments in the OTHER VIDEO😂😂😂

[@dmed312]

Lisa Lane's sister was a reporter in Metropolis, and would often get saved from predicaments by her co worker Clark Kent.

[@zefft5098]

Truer words have never been spoken

[@GELATO_]

Damn amazing I actually respect that he was able to change his perspective on things it’s not an easy thing to do sometimes a single action speaks a million words

[@randomuruk7230]

He didn't change his view, his first statement had nothing to do with this one.

[@rangersraven1453]

Bobby be like: I’m an equal opportunity ass whooper, I’ll beat em all

[@DivaChess]

I think he went from the quiet kid to the narcissistic genius to the wise man.

[@Tobias8842]

Oh boy I can’t wait to hear what this wise man had to say about 9/11

[@DivaChess]

@@Tobias8842 i mean the wise man as in when he was really old, when he said he hated chess and it wasnt fun

[@xenoferinferno9915]

na he got more insane ...which is y hes speaking nonsense here

[@DivaChess]

@@xenoferinferno9915 ??? he said women can still play chess

[@aggersoul23]

Before my dad's even born...

[@ImPovii]

I'm sorry. This is the quality of a video from 1972, and we don't have tape of Wilt and Bill Russell playing??

[@thorfinn_saga]

Bro completed his character development arc

[@Saskaruto16]

He also went on to mentor Judit Polgar, the greatest female chess player in history. Everyone references the first video when he was 19 and knew nothing completely out of context. Surprise, many people grow and learn. For some it just takes longer than others.

[@taza257]

the interview when he was 19 wasn't taken out of context.

[@Saskaruto16]

@@taza257 Yes it is completely out of context. It popped up both as a meme and as some sort of showcase or branding that the best chess player, and through that chess and current chess players, are misogynistic. But that's not true. Bobby was very evidently just repeating what he had heard at the time and didn't have any of his own thoughts in the first interview. At age 19, only 1 year into being considered a legal adult (and we know how feeble that metric actually is) yeah he said some misogynistic shit in an interview. But you see interviews of him only a couple years later when he's seen some women do well in chess, which is basically all he cared about, and suddenly his tune has completely shifted to praising them and their abilities in chess. To then later go on to be one of the mentors for the greatest female player in history, even living with her and her family at one point. The views he expressed in the singular interview and it's being showcased now are completely absent of the context that this was not an accurate depiction of what Bobby thought about women and women in chess for the overwhelming majority of his life even just a couple years later. That's very important context given the ideas trying to be argued from that original interview broken up into clips all over KZbin, Twitter, etc.

[@001variation]

We have unlocked the good ending

[@JustLaila3011]

Guy changes his opinion like Magnus changes his openings 😂

[@AuntyHelen152]

i think bro got hit by mom when he went home the other day

[@ernestomamedaliev4253]

No matter what Bobby says, he is god. Ty for your time.

[@danielkirkby3601]

Close your eyes when Bobby talks and think of the original Gomez Adams

[@PAITAMI]

i love the fact that he is still alughing while saying that

[@AK-du2md]

Guys he obviously got educated since the last clip

[@Force1Com]

If women would have taken his advice as a teen, before he got "educated" our country wouldn't be falling apart

[@arnold-ho8kh]

If you think he changed his opinion on women in chess youre dumb

[@alazjaw.8968]

@@Force1Com you live a terrible life

[@windlessdoot7877]

@@Force1Comblaming our countries issues in women 💀 that’s crazy

[@blueberryoatmeal4009]

Character development?

[@ramanahveljeyaseelan5406]

His character development took so long, that you can now view TV with colour. Lol

[@YuzuLeanne]

“I welcome SOME girls in chess”

[@cosmossci4883]

Yeah and by that he meant that he'd welcome some more women in chess just as SOME men play chess but not all. Clearly you're seeing what you want here.

[@red7057]

Nona Gaprindashvili, Georgian chess player, I am georgian too and so proud of her

[@nemezizcops4534]

Bro was sigma before it was invented ☠️☠️☠️

[@AlfredHugecokk]

He sounds like a guy who spoke to much in a dinner... and then get his ass kick by his wife right after they get in the car 😂

[@parable8711]

???

[@MarkovChains223]

Not sure if he's the right guy to ask whether or not there's sexism in chess

[@mradamdsmith]

The algorithm pushed the other vid to us earlier this morning, and now it's trying to do damage control.

[@stavros222]

Bobby fischer be like:" i welcome women at chess but i don't think they are good at it"

[@day-bu2ms]

10yo real man logic : if I have a dick I am a better player then non-dick player

[@nimrodszocs2795]

the truth of statistics, nothing weird or incorrect in that statement

[@stavros222]

@@nimrodszocs2795 yeah but there are men losing to women and then they get angry

[@viharikrishnan5588]

@@stavros222Maybe you are talking about yourself men don’t get angry and men and women are different and if Top 100 Women GM’s compete against Top 100 Male GM’s who will win you know the answer be honest

[@stavros222]

@@viharikrishnan5588 i have heard some cases from women gms. How are you making assumptions that fast bro

[@ajs5137]

I'm pretty sure they're better at cleaning.

[@alazjaw.8968]

you’d never know. a women will never come close to you.

[@cydra_infinity1423]

*White knight moment*

[@lukefelicciardi3945]

“She’s around” 😂

[@dringo977]

Everyone who have seen this video has also seen a similar video few days ago. ☠️

[@CONCIOUS19]

All the wimen he mentioned, he can still checkmate them so..I dont think he changed his mind in here.

[@yesyouareright9800]

can't change facts

[@sayantikamondal6402]

All the men will also be brutally butchered by Fischer, what's your point

[@Force1Com]

And what he said initially was still technically right

[@Force1Com]

Just people like a little more smoke blowed up their azz, and he got more skilled at it

[@alazjaw.8968]

and what about the men? if he changed his opinion why are you still fighting to be misogynistic?

[@romilrh]

He might have changed his mind, but to say that chess has no discrimination against women is just ridiculous 😂

[@Vingul]

It is? How?

[@romilrh]

@@Vingul Chess has a ton of discrimination against women. Always has, still does.

[@Vingul]

@@romilrh that’s a very weak answer.

[@romilrh]

@@Vingul I said the statement is ridiculous. You asked me why the statement is ridiculous. I told you exactly why the statement is ridiculous. My answer could literally not be any stronger, clearer, or more direct 😂

[@yesyouareright9800]

@@romilrh well not anymore, those are just excuses for why men are better at chess, excuses so dumb they make me laugh

[@LittleChessMates]

He got so excited. He changed his shirt to yellow and started to get going with the birds and the bees. Genius

[@HunterDavies2]

My man started his redemption arc

[@cooperbenwman6717]

Chess is most literally the most non discriminatory game/sport

[@Force1Com]

Maybe they should make a Disney movie about a woman super hero who beats everyone at chess whole simultaneously sexually liberating herself

[@day-bu2ms]

​@@Force1Com man already do it

[@jbwon2775]

He means well and he's completely honest. You have to understand back then it was completely normal for the women of the time to be the homekeepers. Also Chess is one of the few sports where there's no gender difference when it comes to competitions and ratings. Still today the highest rated women chess grandmaster is leagues below the best of the men grandmasters

[@Monkchelle_Kongbama]

tHaTs bEcAuSe tHeY dOnT gEt tHe sAmE oPpOrTuNiTy mEn dO same old shit, it has gotten to the point where the only time you see "women" in the top 100 of just about anything its because that "woman" used to have a schlong

[@thecrusader1673]

"Also Chess is one of the few sports where there's no gender difference when it comes to competitions and ratings" and then "Still today the highest rated women chess grandmaster is leagues below the best of the men grandmasters". I wonder if there are any women currently in the top 100?

[@trompette4485]

@@thecrusader1673 That's cognitive dissonance right there

[@thecrusader1673]

@@trompette4485 Sounds like a skill issue

[@viharikrishnan5588]

Still there is no problem with stay at home mother that is the perfect way of family living

[@Tyhansbrough91]

I’m surprised no one has mentioned that he sounds identical to Ryan gosling and has the same smile as him.

[@kreg_]

He was actually trying to ask if FIDE was a sexist organization, not if chess is a sexist game. Chess is just a game, it can't be sexist.