The Tragic Story of the World's Greatest Chess Player

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[@Newsthink]

*How strong of a player would Bobby Fischer be in modern times?* Ready to sleep better? You're 1 click away: www.magnesiumbreakthrough.com/newsthink - Use code: NEWSTHINK10 for 10% off.

[@mr.nobody2398]

Nope.I would go for Magnus carlsen.

[@user12122]

Sounded to me you got offended by his opinion about women and thought lets call him insane - defame because of that is just lack of intelligence.

[@davidmacphee3549]

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[@AUFalcon64]

Disappointing slamming Fischer's name in thumbnail. Theirs so much to the story you have left out. What happened to Fischer is one of biggest travesties for human culture ever to happen.

[@bernardinollceros2854]

make video for jose capablanca too

[@henrymethorst9108]

Its hard to call him paranoid while then admitting that his family was being spied upon for years.

[@tim44120]

Thats just what I thought. The beginning's of mass media manipulation and cancel culture.

[@ryanhanna1737]

You're very right.. Bobby Fischer was spot on till the day he died.. take a closer look . He died at 64 years old... How many squares on a chess board ?? See.. also he never went crazy.. he was merely making his mark, and he did make his legacy felt and remarkably influencial and mysterious.. however, notice he was enraged over the demeaning of the Palestinian State... If someone reveals conspiracy that is 100% spot on, it's likely you would be on the biggest hitlist!!! I wish America and Israel implement a better form of government... But.. lotta people don't understand the Christ.. and that's just the way it be... Mental illness is the best way they could camloflagh Bobby Fischer and the fact that he was right about that !!

[@manleyaccmanley617]

@@ryanhanna1737 L kid

[@ryanhanna1737]

@@manleyaccmanley617 what do you mean to say my friend,??? Did you read my full remarks.. do you agree with what I said.. or are you saying something else.. a penny for your brilliant thoughts !!!

[@manleyaccmanley617]

@@ryanhanna1737 keep crying

[@vangoghsseveredear]

"He was paranoid the FBI was watching him" "So anyways in the FBI's secret files on his mother..."

[@kevinnikolov4418]

clown world , clown video

[@jakobquick6875]

Not crazy at all😂 Actually the smartest American in years😂

[@Mooseman327]

Fischer did not "go insane." The world that accuses him of that IS insane. And as Jiddu Krishnamurti once said, ""It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

[@leewright7623]

Wow that’s perspective 👍

[@wateriswet0510]

It's a romantic way of looking about it but his comments denying the Holocaust and his opinions about 9/11 sorta dispute any and all notion of his sanity All chess masters are insane anyways, he was just insane in a way that was perhaps more negative

[@ryanodonnell4184]

Great quote. I love krishnamurti

[@zackattack635]

@@wateriswet0510 which part of those denials was wrong? All of the evidence says Fischer was correct. You however… blindly believe media owned by the people Bobby correctly attacked. Imagine thinking you could intellectually poke holes in an observation made by one of the most elite pattern recognizers ever. Bobby told the truth and had his life ruined for it. You say what is convenient because you’re naive and obedient. See the difference?

[@cooterhead_jones]

K says it is better for a person to be maladjusted to a profoundly sick society? Where is the profundity in that assertion? Among the most profoundly sick societies exist in jails and prisons, world wide. The individuals who don’t adjust are those who end up,in prison morgues with tags on a great toe. I’d rather adjust.

[@sb3424]

He didn't go insane. He just knows more than you.

[@energeticremedies]

💯

[@tvlyt444]

So true ! 👍

[@trinitymatrix9719]

He went more than insane, his brain went pitch black

[@kenw2225]

No. He went eyes wide open. He knew who the bad people were in the world. They always have been and always will be. They're doing they're same old thing again today. Crying victim while being the evildoers

[@trinitymatrix9719]

Yea, knowing that being antisemite and loving geo-ciders is a good thing....lool. guess what group of people loving this idea....@@kenw2225

[@Farinata2]

"With talent, study and a positive attitude there is no limit to how far you can go" - Bobby Fischer

[@Thomas-xe3ce]

And the idiot narrator says he failed to live up to his own words. He became world champion.

[@thetaqjr]

Unfortunately, that is not true.

[@potxtoe]

I doubt he ever said that.

[@chillipepperenthooziest3730]

@@potxtoe He wrote it for a newspaper article

[@nonamechannel9235]

Imagine how much he can improve (with computer) if he lived in this era.

[@tarrasch_]

- Fischer never met his father or even had someone to display a figure for him - His relationship with his mother from the very beginning was really cold and distant, the level he was pratically moving away from home at age 13 - At age 29 living almost 16 years of complete loneliness he became WC and started to be noticed, so much he couldn't handle - After years he disappeared, Bobby lost potentials wifes (due his own behaviour), got banned from his own country and dismissed by everyone, painting him as a coward for leaving the WC, and for his comments about 09/11 Basically in the last years of his life Bobby died alone in a country he didn't belong, with no wife, no kids, no lifelong friends, and not even the proper respect from his own country about what he did, the only legacy he left and dedicated his entire life to it, just tell me how you don't go insane?

[@justdev8965]

With that kind of childhood, I would have probably killed myself long before he dragged out his existence.

[@rickintexas1584]

You got it backwards. He had no friends, or wife, or anything because he went insane. It started way early in his life.

[@Bee-tj8gc]

@@justdev8965 The Torah and old testament consider suicide akin to murder. Only God can give and take life.

[@suki6743]

He had a wife though? The one from Japan

[@DamianSzajnowski]

@@rickintexas1584 Both correlate - some sort of a feedback loop possibly.

[@samehmikhail5039]

We all know, he was a great chess player who didn’t like politics but once you state your honest opinion, then you are insane. We all respect him regardless of the fake media.

[@pavlos712]

He didn't go insane. His last interviews did not manifest any sign of insanity, and he rather always displays logical arguments.

[@alexrandall8557]

Didn't he say America deserved 9/11? He was deeply antisemitic, despite his mother being Jewish. I'm not sure I'd say "insane", but he definitely had some mental problems, particularly relating to a paranoia/persecution complex

[@nealsausen4651]

@@alexrandall8557 : Both of Bobby’s parents were Jewish evidently Which makes him 100% same!

[@jankodjuric1833]

@@alexrandall8557 Actually it was misunderstood, he was right about Isreali killing Palestinians, commiting genocides. He just knew his country was imperialistic, maybe it is too much to say that the people (civilians) deserved 9/11, but the country did (that politics). I think he was just to hard on words, tho they had a lot of truth in it.

[@alexrandall8557]

@@jankodjuric1833 He was right about the Israeli part, I don't doubt that. But I don't think his comments on 9/11 are defensible in any way, along with a host of other problems he had

[@shivaronaldo16]

He was brutally honest and the world couldn't handle it. He was flawed like every one of us but definitely didn't went insane.

[@pariable]

Bobby was not mad. His pattern recognition eventually laid out the world for what it was to him. It's an unfortunate place.

[@i.g.l.z.9215]

So true..

[@trevorrogers95]

Oy vey shut it down

[@ali09gaming58]

the people who you cannot criticise, he criticised and then was called insane

[@lukeves]

Dr. Skulason said that when they first met, Fischer, knowing of his profession, joked that “he was so normal that he was almost boring.” After getting to know Fischer a bit, Skulason said, “He was not crazy. Not at all. He was very hurt about being outlaw from his own country.”

[@31145_]

Amen

[@shivaronaldo16]

@@31145_ they try to label him as crazy due to the fact he spoke out against elites and the government.

[@31145_]

@@shivaronaldo16 yes! I think exactly like that, he was outspoken and that is punished, to be a traitor to the US is the worst thing you can do, now let´s see what they do to Assange

[@horseracingstuff]

@@shivaronaldo16 Anyone denying the Holocaust is crazy.

[@brianjacob8728]

Fischer wasn't crazy; he was right.

[@VV-ku6bk]

He’s a genius that’s capable of solving extremely complex problems. Yet he went crazy because he had a completely wrong assessment of the entire world? He was “paranoid” that intelligence services were plotting against him, yet they were constantly surveilling him and trying to manipulate him. I hate when average people act so dismissively towards geniuses. Ever think maybe he was on to something?

[@Mehdi-vn1uf]

True ..it can be real things he's seeing or finding ,we don't forget he is a genius

[@fynnjackson2298]

Fisher was way ahead of his time, going crazy is just low IQ peoples way of rationalising what they dont understand. Dude was a real one straight up!

[@stevencoardvenice]

Mental illness effects people of all intelligence levels, even super high IQ people like bobby. Some of the stuff he said sounded like mental illness. Like having all the fillings in his teeth removed. But many of his other concerns might have been legitimate. Governments can be very petty and shady, so I'm sure there was some truth to idea that the u.s. and Soviets and m0ssad were out to get him

[@jerrys5102]

He knew what he was talking about

[@tonyhuynh707]

Intelligence is subjective.

[@turdeaugottago114]

he didnt go insane, he got increasingly clear understanding of the way this world works as he aged.

[@KRAJINA_]

If he knew how the world worked, he would of taken advantage of it, instead he died broke,so I beg to differ.

[@arnoldhey1938]

Can’t take advantage when groups have the advantage. They made sure to take everything from him

[@Wally780]

⁠@@KRAJINA_you do realise and take into consideration that not everything can be taken advantage of.?

[@Adam-mv4fw]

Let's not romanticise mental illness ok? The guy cut ties with everyone who cared for him, All his partners left him because of his behavior, has no concept of empathy. When i read about him, it really sounds like he was suffering from bpd and was left untreated. Honestly just feel bad for the guy

[@TruthSurge]

@@KRAJINA_ he wasn't a greedy rat, so I beg to differ.

[@toddubow2599]

"Failed to live up to his own words." World Champion against the entire solviet system. Most influential player ever. His legend continues to grow despite vids like this.

[@lizardking7772]

Dude was wise . The more you know the more you see how crazy the world is

[@samehmikhail5039]

Also our media is controlled , and told what to say.

[@bobbuilder155]

The more a person understood others, the more cuckoo others become.

[@TheNoticer83]

All throughout history the greatest geniuses were typically depressed. Why? Because imagine being the 1 out of a million to understand the who/what/where/when/why and yet have no ability to fix it because you're outnumbered a million to one. Being a genius in this world is a cruel joke. It's a lonely, isolated existence where the only escape is in your mind.

[@lizardking7772]

@@TheNoticer83 yes just like Jesus. But we have god so we wrestle never alone

[@PartnershipsForYou]

Whatever you want to think. You’re wrong in your assessment, but you’re free to believe it

[@signsfrombeyond4863]

This is an incredibly smart human being and he is probably more sane than most would be able to realize.

[@justdev8965]

I mean ... the people in the twin towers probably had nothing to do with the war horrors the USA loved to inflict. If they struck a military base or the president that's a different story, but just people working on their offices, c'mon, how can someone say that?! I'm against US foreign policies, but will never support that black day's act! Even the right thing to do is wrong when you have the wrong target.

[@tdb4763]

Time is the ultimate teller of truth. As it stands he was right about most things.

[@r.c.l2569]

A society calls people insane because it’s dismissive. Tragic really

[@trinitymatrix9719]

He was as insane as you could possibly go in his later days...

[@signsfrombeyond4863]

@@trinitymatrix9719 For someone whose name is 'trinitymatrix' you should pull your head out of the system's ass.

[@eaglized1045]

He wasn't crazy, he was honest

[@magicmanscott40k]

Seems like that. I didn't get a crazy vibe from him

[@INFIDEL96]

He wrote in his journal in 12/13/1999: Rapture is coming, time to kill Jews"

[@literallyme177]

@@IgN5P I mean. They do own and run a whole lotta things.

[@obaiahmad557]

@@IgN5P he aint wrong

[@xMaxLoverx1]

Same to Andrew Tate

[@thetelemarkdaydream8896]

He didn't go insane. He just got tired of noticing and not saying anything about it.

[@emilyjones5830]

I’m glad more people are realizing that.

[@jayjay2637]

"Nothing is as healing as the human touch" Bobby Fischer. That gave me chills

[@amartya9034]

@BradynLee It was his love language for his girlfriend is what he said. Alongside his therapy

[@gokulrajv]

Hax secc eksee

[@Boudicca-the-musical]

She says "match" when she means "game".

[@richardkell4888]

Maybe he seldom felt the caring touch of another human being. Ten years ago i went to a therapist and fr over an hour she merely placed hands on me and finished at my feet, it was the most relaxed I'd ever been.

[@kimbarsegyan]

@@richardkell4888 Did you tap it?

[@judhudon6235]

Fischer didn't go insane. Read the two books written by his two best Icelandic friends who chronicle the end of his life. Neither calls him insane although both admit that he could be "very difficult" at times. Well, I hate to clue you in, folks, but most humans have their "very difficult" moments. When one takes in how Fischer was treated by the US government and was imprisioned in Japan for months, it is a miracle that Fischer survived, let alone kept his sanity.

[@trinitymatrix9719]

he hated the world and hated himself and only people talking him up are those who are mentally ill and love terrorist attacks 9/11 and ivel darkness

[@honestlyyours1069]

It is both cruel and inaccurate to insinuate that Bobby Fischer went insane. He didn't spend long periods of time in mental institutions and he was able to successfully immigrate to Iceland, where he spent the rest of his days. That is not the sign of someone who is insane. It would be better to call him as being quite eccentric. He could still function, albeit in a rather limited way.

[@G_Demolished]

Eccentric is what we call insane people with money and fame.

[@innertubez]

Fischer was beyond merely eccentric. He definitely had mental problems. Some of his paranoia was justified because he was under FBI surveillance, but as I see it, his eccentricity devolved into insanity (specifically maybe paranoid schizophrenia) as he aged. But who knows, I am not a psychological professional.

[@ew264]

he joined a doomsday cult and said he wanted more things like 9/11 to happen. He was insane.

[@ignis6144]

@@ew264 what’s wrong with that? Do u know his justification for that? Perfectly reasonable after listening to what he said

[@ew264]

@@ignis6144 yes nothing wrong with 3000 civilians dead when the goverment is to blame. Nothing wrong with joining a cult known for brainwashing, kidnapping and exploitation of minors. Nothing at all. He was clearly insane.

[@wolflink9000]

Bobby Fischer wasn't insane he had more clarity than most anyone.

[@davidb8618]

By removing his fillings?

[@glenphillips9068]

Think many people have done that. Maybe he had them replaced with a different material ? I never got to look in his mouth, did you ? I thought the bit about him being paranoid about being spied on was good when they had a file on his parents....

[@Icannottolerateit]

@@glenphillips9068your mother being spied on doesn’t mean you’re being spied on your entire life. Lots of people with communist sympathies were spies on at the time…. Notice how nothing happened to her

[@sarabrown7689]

No. I knew him briefly when we lived in the same cheap flophouse hotel in California in the early 1980's. He was nuts.

[@erenyogurt8151]

​@@sarabrown7689 source : trust me bro

[@johnweathers794]

this should be called the gaslighting of bobby fischer

[@johnweathers794]

You lock him up in prison, steal all that man's life work from his storage unit and from his mom's place after she died and then make a book called bobby Fischer teaches chess and a movie called searching for bobby Fischer without his permission essentially copyrighting his name without his permission. Then when he does get out of prison he is the one who sounds nuts right?

[@johnnopeyy4129]

Not to mention the sanctions bullshit which did not apply at all to the situation.

[@sleepyjoe8394]

He didn’t go insane. He went sane.

[@tomjoad9447]

Bobby knew Israel controlled US foreign policy... Congress knows it too but is afraid to speak out

[@trinitymatrix9719]

he hated the world and hated himself and only people talking him up are those who are mentally ill and love terrorist attacks 9/11 and ivel darkness

[@sleepyjoe8958]

@@trinitymatrix9719he hated the evil satanic

[@sleepyjoe8958]

@@trinitymatrix9719jews controlling

[@sleepyjoe8958]

@@trinitymatrix9719this world

[@noone3367]

Just because you don't like his opinions it doesn't mean he is insane

[@zerotwoisreal]

says no one

[@alvawijaya6922]

@@zerotwoisreal I see what you did there

[@Vichu.]

But you can not justify his opinion about 9/11

[@jasonbourne4784]

​@@Vichu.He said that because he hated Bush

[@jasonbourne4784]

​@@zerotwoisrealsays anyone who's not a loser follower

[@darkrooster89]

So the middle portion of the video goes on about how paranoid Bobby Fischer was and how he believed he was being targeted and spied on. Then the video casually goes on to admit that the FBI had secret files on his mother and himself.

[@anj000]

Exactly. I knew nothing about Fischer but from that video I gathered that he was 100% sane and correct. He was just brutally honest. Isn't that true that women are simply statistically worst at chess? Isn't that true that Israel is committing war crimes on Palestinians? Isn't that true that he was spied on? Everything this video is trying to potray as somehow wrong is spot on.

[@vtk551]

@@anj000 exactly not only my self thinking the same. You see people sometimes cant accept fact that some people have different views of world and they have reason for it, but instead of trying know their reason society calls them insane

[@chicco5033]

@@anj000 He denied the Holocaust, 100% sane and correct. Said that US had it coming about 9/11. Those 3000 people didn't. This is just blind devotion.

[@slightlyirradiatedmuffin3257]

@@anj000 There's a fascinating concept known as "nuance". Look into it.

[@anj000]

@@slightlyirradiatedmuffin3257 there is fascinating concept of being "brutally honest" or "blunt". Look it up.

[@antongrusovnik4539]

He was my idol when I was a kid. Studied all his games and started playing tournaments. I won my first tournament and became obsessed with the game. I was pretty much to myself and it was all I did for many years.

[@keytothegate68]

Fischer was not insane. But I can see how some circles would like that to be true

[@antithesespistopheles8112]

The only thing wrong with Fischer was that he perceived and told the truth. He was sane in an insane world.

[@energeticremedies]

Exactly,they said Martin Luther the reformer was insane too after his last book he wrote and "died" "The j oos and their lies"😮😮 Seems to be a PR statement when a person gets a little too close to telling the truth 😢RIP Bobby ❤

[@trinitymatrix9719]

He went more than insane, his brain went pitch black

[@TitaniumTurbine]

@@energeticremedies What the hell are you even talking about? Do you just make this stuff up or did you read “alternative facts” elsewhere by some anonymous Reddit user and decided it was true?

[@trevorrogers95]

@@TitaniumTurbineMartin Luther (German guy that helped spread Protestantism) wrote a book “On the Jews and their Lies” this guy spent the first half of his life defending Jews and trying to convert them mind you. It’s not a made up fact you can look it up it’s on Wikipedia.

[@31145_]

Have you noticed that this is the story of Fischer as US would tell it? I will never get tired of defending him and I will explain why: everything he was afraid of was plausible, 1. It was true that US used him as a War Machine against USSR, 2.There is a long story of cheating in the history of chess, 3. What he thought about Palestine and Israel is a respected opinion arround the world except in US and Israel, and that made him a target of the US, 4.He rejected to play in the computer Era because he loved Chess as a game of Intelligence, strategy and psychology, and not as a game of memorization and preparation as it is today due to the computers..... As said, this documentary shows that Bobby wasn't educated, with no social-skills (what is not true, he had a refined sense of humor: watch Carsson´s Late Show appereance), that he disliked women (just because he says they are bad at chess, what is somehow true, with exceptions as the sisters Polgar...) there has never in 134 /since the first Championship/ years been a female Wrold Champion; telling this is impopular, but also true)... They also said he lived an obscure life after his problems, how do they know? Did the poster ask his neighbours in Iceland? or is it that he hated cameras and reporters. It is sad how he was punished, he is the biggest World Champion of History of Chess, and this is not just my opinion.

[@SuperLol]

Fischer is def no ordinary man one can meet on the street, but because of that i think we are making a lot of assumptions as this video shows, simply based on his actually rather defensible statements and opinions (as u and many other comments have shown). He's simply a guy that goes straight to the point, and maybe too much in certain ways, but that can't possibly make someone insane. Maybe he is, but we're simply making too many assumptions rn without further evidence. I especially found his argument on women in chess interesting. He did not say women can't get better in chess. Women being currently inferior in chess compared men does not indicate they can get better, or that they can't get better. But one fact is that they are worse right now. Maybe he was a bit too straight on, again, but I can totally see many of my friends say that while also supporting women in any other field and in life in general. Maybe he thought it'd be a hot topic to bring up? Maybe he felt pressured in interview? Maybe he just didn't really think too much about it before the interview? These are assumptions just like the ones many of us are making to accuse him of mental illness. He might be insane; he might not be. But we don't know and people can't take that as an answer.

[@kensanity178]

I agree with what you said, except psychology. Fischer himself said I dont believe in psychology, I believe in good moves.

[@smokesandalloy9487]

Chris Langan is also not crazy.

[@scarbo2229]

We can’t assume Fischer was crazy. Geniuses often have trouble functioning. I know that his games sometimes rose to the level of aesthetic beauty. I know because I used to study them, and no other great player has matched his brilliance, abandon and ingenuity. One more thing: he actually grew to dislike the game of chess and complained that it had no future, given that its theory and analysis had run its course. He preferred a new multidimensional version of chess that tested the true insight of the players, as opposed to the “book” knowledge of the opening moves.

[@kensanity178]

@@scarbo2229 I personally dont think Fischer was crazy. I do believe he should have been more celebrated in life. When I play chess with a buddy I'm on the edge of my seat with a feeling like I'm in a knife fight. It's all encompassing. I agree about all the memorizing and theory. Fischer threw Spassky a curve ball when he came out with queen pawn opening just for that reason. I'm sure he was isolated and lonely a lot. This pandemic has got a lot of us feeling that. He was mistreated by the police once, just for being arrogant. Those cops didnt know Bobby, and they didnt know that all world class chess players are arrogant. To an extent.

[@PC-xv5uz]

Bobby refused all types of bullshit, that most humans revil in......... respect to him

[@Aivottaja]

He didn't go insane. He went insanely brave And there's nothing tragic about that. The brood of vipers did its usual array of harm on him as they do to all who call them out and stand their ground: character assassination, sabotage of career and livelihood, imprisonment and labeling insane. Not only the world's greatest chess player, but a great man.

[@trinitymatrix9719]

He went far more than insane, his brain went pitch black

[@Aivottaja]

@@trinitymatrix9719His brain went based.

[@trinitymatrix9719]

His brain stopped working, he got completely insane

[@Aivottaja]

@@trinitymatrix9719His brain was supercharged. The only insane thing about him was his bravery.

[@trinitymatrix9719]

His brain got in the end maggot infested, he couldnt think clearly. he hated the world and himself

[@beebbeeb3148]

He did not fail in the end. His chess score has never been beaten hes a legend that wont be forgotten

[@Legend108]

What was his score?

[@franciscodizon4078]

@@Legend108 US OPEN 1963, 11 WINS OUT OF 11 ROUNDS and became the US CHESS OPEN CHAMPION. RUNNER-UP scores only 7-1/2 pts.

[@Legend108]

@@franciscodizon4078 🗿

[@KRAJINA_]

He ended up an outcast in Iceland..seems like failure to me..considering all his potential.

[@InnerAlchemy8]

@@KRAJINA_ Yeah, you´re the type who´d rather suck up to the system, no matter how corrupt and evil it is. That´s your measurement of "success".

[@slobodankazic7376]

I knew Fischer personally and he was not paranoid at all. He had a poor tolerance to psychological stress, particularly during chess matches, and that were times when tournament organizers had problems with him. Otherwise, in normal circumstances he was a pleasant man to socialize with- not at all a kind of a loner who evades humans . He had some particular requests when chess matches were played concerning the number of visitors that may enter playing hall or chess set that should be used. My father had a particular chess set and a board which we still keep made for Dubrovnik Olympiad in 1950. Bobby Fischer requested to play chess during 1970 match USSR vs the rest of the world in Belgrade and 1992 Fischer - Spasky match only with this set and no one other. On some matches he insisted to play in private rooms with his opponents without presence of a public, since the public distracted him. For instance during Fischer-Taimanov match in Vancouver, in addition to players and the arbiter, only six people in the world could enter the playing room. Overall, Fischer was a genious, but not a paranoic or madman like some people think.

[@chicco5033]

Dude denied the holocaust and applauded 9/11. I didn't meet him, the government shouldn't have done that to him, but I doubt I would have shared a beer with the man knowing his views. Maybe he wasn't mad but surely his ideas on certain topics were just disgusting.

[@andrzejostrowski2068]

@@chicco5033 Regrding 9.11 he dared to say what half of the world thought at that moment.

[@chicco5033]

@@andrzejostrowski2068 true, but the 3000 people in the towers had very likely nothing to do with what the government did in those countries. Same goes for all the dead civilians in the middle east (roughly 100X the number above...). It's just never good when innocents die.

[@redbullsauberpetronas]

@@chicco5033 what goes around comes around

[@mortgagefinancing5558]

Lol he knew fisher personally

[@tvlyt444]

Obviously he was sane and the media reporting on him were insane. As we can see clearly now.

[@RedStar441]

Leave it to a world so twisted that they no longer recognize an honest man anymore.

[@Axiomatic75]

He did not go insane. He just figured out how the world works.

[@stefan4159]

Calling for a military government that would execute hundreds of thousands of Jews is not really the mark of someone who "figured out how the world works".

[@zeniktorres4320]

He did indeed.

[@okas425]

Kanye West is the Bobby Fischer of our generation

[@MajinHico]

​@@okas425 are you idiot? Fisher was a genius, and K. West is just an idiot who found idiots who likes his music.

[@Tacet137]

He knew certain truths decades before anyone else

[@malcolmabram2957]

I was a kid (UK) when Bobby Fischer became world champion. It was the height of the cold war and it was not just a case of him being a strong chess player, but east v west. The media loved it, and almost certainly, never has chess had such a high following. Chess matches were even televised on mainstream TV. My school had an A and a B team in inter school leagues. Now most schools do not even have a chess club. I should think the majority of people today could not name who the world champion is now, that was not the case in 1972.

[@31145_]

Sad and true, the Media does with information as it pleases them, as an example somehow Covid 19 almost dissapeared since Russia´s invasion of Ukraine...

[@stefan4159]

I do agree that chess went on a decline on a cultural, social and media level -- but that decline didn't happen after the Fischer era, it happened after the titanic Kasparov/Karpov struggles of the 1980s and 1990s. Chess was probably at its lowest point during the 2000s and early 2010s, but we do seem to be having another golden age again, with Carlsen having the "Kasparov effect" of being the undisputed best player in the world -- as opposed to the constant bickering between PCA and FIDE, having dozens of "world champions" with zero credibility. Additionally we have chess becoming an e-sport that can be streamed on Twitch, and finally the Queen's Gambit series.

[@samuelmiller524]

Like John Collins, I have cerebral palsy and a large chess book collection, which I am taking with me when I move next month into a seniors residence. I'm 65 and in declining health. In 1974 I played in the Canadian Open; Bobby Fischer played in the Canadian Open in 1956 and tied for 8th place.

[@malcolmabram2957]

@@samuelmiller524 What a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing. I wish you all the best with your health.

[@loschekell]

I remember some of those games he played with the Russians. Sometimes Fischer would throw a tantrum in the middle of a game and refuse to continue unless they changed the rules. He wanted to play by his own rules.

[@Mooseman327]

"Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you." - Thomas Pynchon

[@Dominic_Amoe]

He was completely sane and correct. Just because you're not as smart as him, doesn't mean hes insane.

[@arielgabizon78]

You first say he's crazy cause he's worried about the FBI tracking him, and then say the FBI was worried about Russians recruiting him? Great video, but the idea that it shows Fischer went insane is wrong. Also, a lot of people are worried about toxicity from dental fillings.

[@yakkyuu12]

The toxicity about fillings, as obscure as it may seem is VERY REAL-- while people of wealth used gold fillings knew its molecular make- up would make it MUCH SAFER than-- siiver! The silver filling DID HAVE ALLOYS( not pure silver) in them and Fisher was very right to be worried! That many years ago -- this was all there was available! Not ONE DENTIST of QUALITY uses silver or even gold fillings! IF you have EITHER of those fillings dentists WILL ENCOURAGE you to get them taken out and replace with much BETTER and SAFER materials!

[@dollarcostbackpacker1226]

The fbi was tracking him, hid entire life... this video leaves out the fact his father wasnt his father. His real father i cannot remember but was a spy maybe double agent.

[@AtEboli]

Plus they were spying on his mother!

[@thezeek2745]

Right? Mental illness in his life for sure. But he didn’t “go insane”

[@pavlos712]

Great observation

[@ItsAxeI]

Well the FBI literally was investigating him. Pretty extensively, so yeah he was right about that

[@chrisnelson76]

He didnt go insane.. perhaps the world around him isnt ready for true wisdom

[@gezin82]

His stand on Palestinian would be popular today

[@chrisnelson76]

Only a jew would know what the jews were up too 🙂

[@ARRR-SAUROPHAGANAX]

Above all he was a warrior match player. Nobody can go 12-0 against 2 grandmasters that is unheard.

[@chessislife596]

“I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.” - Bobby Fischer

[@vikramkrishnan6414]

I would be very surprised if Fischer read "Kasparov vs Karpov" growing up.

[@HowardWimshurst]

I was thinking that too 😂

[@danijelindjic3859]

Ficher played Ches before Kasparov learned what this word mean

[@doncarloancelotti2256]

@@salmonsandwich3183 Ah yes, categorize all women because of the actions of one person who probably just did the speaking. There was probably a team behind this inconsistent "research" but you're going to use your flawed logic to attack women for no reason.

[@rileybyng1738]

​​@@salmonsandwich3183 ​@Don Carlo Ancelotti Look up current FIDE statistics. For both GMs and IMs Female players rating average within 10 points of Male player's average rating. That is undeniable proof that women are just as good as men. STFU From what I know Judit Polgar never lived with Fischer. What's your source?

[@zakir2815]

@@rileybyng1738 remind me of the ratio of the number of male gms to female gms please. There is nothing stopping a woman from picking up a chess board and becoming a great player. They just don't seem to make it.

[@carollomax9524]

Thank you for putting this together!

[@_strife]

Holy shit Bobby was based

[@turkumies7799]

This guy is more relatable than most of the people I've seen.

[@glywnniswells9480]

He called out some phenomenal truths and thats why he was called a madman too many powerful people called out

[@horseracingstuff]

He was a Holocaust denier and therefore insane.

[@RadishAcceptable]

LMAO! No dude... He legit went insane.

[@johns3927]

@@horseracingstuff Being a holocaust denier doesn't make you insane.

[@zakir2815]

@@RadishAcceptable he was telling facts

[@sleepyjoe7241]

@@horseracingstuff seethe ]

[@CesarMartinez-nu3if]

He is crazy until he’s right, anybody would seem crazy when talking about things nobody can see or has seen, but yet there’s faith and belief, then they don’t love you or try to understand you anymore

[@grudgesgalore8666]

this video said bobby fischer was not normal , what is normal anyway , i loved bobby fischer , he wasn't insane JUST A OUTSTANDING CHESS PLAYER that did things back then on the chess board that still stand today I DON'T CALL THAT INSANE rest in peace mr. fischer , i will miss you!!!!!

[@fastbow9]

I didn’t read the post of others until after I posted, THANKS TO ALL WHO SUPPORT BOBBY, this video was a disservice to his memory!

[@justdev8965]

The video just gave facts, not opinions. Can't you see that?

[@Michael-it7nx]

@@justdev8965as much slanted facts as fox or cnn. Can’t you see that ?!

[@Ziegfried82]

@@justdev8965 facts my ass. More like propaganda 1984 style.

[@EMC273]

Resentment just because he didn't think women were good chess players.

[@ChessWartz]

"His mother may have suffered from paranoia," according to the files on his mother secretly compiled by the FBI.

[@liamfintak2750]

Bobby did say paranoid people can be right

[@bevs9995]

LMFAO Just because youre paranoid, doesnt mean theyre not watching you.

[@jojogalit2750]

This is so sad story , but we cannot denied that Bobby Fischer his contribution to the chess world has significant impact to the world.

[@richwarega2584]

He was a Great,,most of us normal people cannot comprehend the mental stamina, dedication and perseverance it takes to truly be an absolute master at a particular skillset,,the courage to walk on the lonely path to greatness and not waiver in the face of life's distractions.what i admire most about him,was he knew chess was going to be his life's work as early as his pre teens and had the resolve to commit his whole life to it's mastery,, that's a mindset that only the true greats can embody, he is my Idol, and i am determined to emulate his achievements on the chessboard

[@glasshousefuture6836]

Feeling like you're being spied on probably could lead to paranoia, I guess, especially if you are right.

[@Enigma_Vids]

The FBI was spying on his mom and she’s called paranoid? That’s like stalking your ex and calling them paranoid when they see you outside their house, absolute rubbish. The FBI is a BS organization.

[@nandinibandhini]

Well put!

[@casahilchoudhary]

Fischer will always remain in hearts and souls of chess world. That man was greatest chess player ever walked on face of planet earth, who crushed candidates tournament with 20-0 streak. Find me another man who can pull it off , that too against Bent Larsen, Mark Taimanov, and take down the Mighty former world champion , Tigran Petrosian. Change my mind 🙏

[@stevenweint7893]

Change your mind? NEMO!!! ♟❤️♟❤️♟❤️

[@kensanity178]

I learned to play chess when Bobby was the U S champ. I remember going over Fischer games, his opponent would resign, and it would take me 3o minutes to figure out why. When he beat Boris Spassky in 72 I was so proud.

[@hisuianzoroark5726]

@@kensanity178 Bobby Fischer, one of the best American sports players.....even if chess is an iffy sport.

[@kensanity178]

@@hisuianzoroark5726 yeah, I dont think of chess as a sport. It's a competition, though, played worldwide, so you can see why the interest is so high.

[@rickkykyle9117]

Michile tal was greater than fischer

[@mazw9898]

Very poor editing decision at 2:15 of showing chess books of Karpov and Kasparov (who came after Fischer) as examples of books he devoured.

[@gordonjackson4040]

I’m just not a fan of the way this video flagrantly presents subjective possibilities from his behavior as objective facts. I don’t believe he failed to live up to his own words. He did what he thought was best for himself without caring how the mass of society saw him or wanted him to be. I believe he accomplished his goal in life with his chess and simply didn’t want to deal with people like the ones producing this video judging his entire existence. I understand that’s the point of this “documentary” but the bias is far too strong for a man who’s not even alive to defend himself.

[@philmstud2k]

"After spying on his mother for years, the FBI concluded that Bobby Fischer's paranoia of being spied on by the FBI must be genetic."

[@thepathakarpit]

Bobby Fischer will always be remembered as Greatest Chess player of all times... Without engines, without International support This guy alone faced the world. Won the World Championship title against Greatest Player of that time. And never lost that Title. His end was not That good. But he has created a Legacy which will remain. And we Chess Enthusiasts can't thank him enough. He has given a lot to chess world. Greatest Chess player of all times. Take a bow Legend🔥🙏

[@mza5307]

He is by far the most marketable player all time yes, a great story with a tragic ending doesnt get much better than that. But actually saying that he is the best of all time its a very tough claim, specially when its so hard to establish comparisons throughout all the generations.

[@thepathakarpit]

@@mza5307 Bro go and watch his games first. Listen to his stories from players with whom He played. He defeated Mikhail tal the magician of chess everyone feared. He beat each and every player we call great of his time... He popularised chess so much no matter how but that doesn't make him great but the fact that He was Greatest. If you would have know anything about chess world you would have already known how great he was. Don't make stupid arguments here. And btw this story is too one sided after he Disobeyed Usa. Whole west ran a propaganda against him that's what his end story is showing here. You shouldn't believe everything A youtuber says. There are always flaws in everything.

[@thepathakarpit]

@@mza5307 and in chess we know well how to make Comparisons throughout generations by the beauty of games. By seeing the people with whom he played...

[@mza5307]

@@thepathakarpit ok, first of all i never questioned his greatness nor his spot among the bests ever! Second dont get emotional as that only takes away credibility, third for any kind of oficial ranking there must be rules and not " by the beauty of games" as that is a subjective as it gets and extremly divided by personal opinions, what is beauty to you might be average for me and vice versa as taste isnt universal. And forth going back to my orginal and ONLY comment (before you assumed i said 50 other different things, just beacause i disagreed with you) you cant easely compare people because of whom they played , because they played different people in different times.

[@davidcopson5800]

@@mza5307 Well said. Your opponent was a tough Fischer-obsessed fan who was blinded by extreme subjectivity, no one would be able to convince him that anyone was greater than Fischer. You remained calm and objective throughout. You were the winner in this battle of words, logic and emotion.

[@michaelmelling9333]

He was a fascinating dude! Thanks much for creating this video!👍

[@DanBurgaud]

13:13 ". . . he has fallen in love with a 64 black and white squares on the chess board, Bobby died when he was 64 years old..." Each year is a chess board.

[@glasshousefuture6836]

I don't know the guy, but keeping soap in your pockets is how much different from keeping small bottles of hand sanitizer on our person. He was ahead of his time.

[@johart309]

imagine going to a country in another continent and people calling a testament of insanity that you keep a soap on hand.

[@innertubez]

True. I think it is a continuum between soap/hand sanitizer and being like, say, Howard Hughes. Covid has really made things that used to seem crazy turn around and seem downright sensible.

[@Ziegfried82]

Indeed. Keeping clean means you are insane? Or is it that you do not wash often enough? Let's face the facts it all boils down to conformity.

[@JohnSmith-oe5kx]

That was his father.

[@douglasvanbenthuysen442]

So, how can you say in the same sentence "Bobby Fischer's mother was paranoid" and "the FBI had a file on her"? Just and example of how paranoids are sometimes just accurate people.

[@calebrapkins]

As a paranoiac, yes

[@Ziegfried82]

Was it paranoia at that point? I think not!!

[@JohnSmith-oe5kx]

You know how being paranoid does not mean that people are not watching you? Well, being watched does not mean that you aren't paranoid, either.

[@styroyou]

Bobby died speaking truth, which makes him one of the absolute greatest of all time.

[@TheMotlias]

To be fair, Salieri trained Beethoven, and Da Vinci apprenticed for Andrea del Verrochio. Genius is a rough diamond and will often need a skilled hand to polish into something truely brilliant

[@hewhobringsthenight9907]

bobby didnt went insane. he grew his consciousness which small normal people cant understand

[@davidb8618]

By removing his fillings?

[@tomjoad9447]

He offended powerful Jews...

[@Adam-mv4fw]

​@@tomjoad9447 if i denied the Palestinians being slaughtered ever happening, powerful oil muslims are justified to exact revenge right? If so, It is completely within the rich jews rights to hunt bobby due to him denying the holocaust.

[@SaidoxdFE]

@@davidb8618die meisten Füllungen sind giftig. Wenn ich welche hätte, würde ich sie ebenfalls entfernen.

[@SaidoxdFE]

@@tomjoad9447bitte einmal einen Beleg vorlegen, wen und wie er angeblich jemanden beleidigt hat.

[@kentso8888]

Bobby Fischer felt used by his own country! its not right to label someone insane just because it did not suit the majorities taste

[@horseracingstuff]

How about being called insane because you deny the Holocaust.

[@lucmermans37]

Have you even watched the video? That guy is insane

[@athish-REAL]

@@lucmermans37 The Majority Of The Public Are The Insane They Just Obey The Orders Of Big Brother And Big Government And Stay Loyal Like A Herd Of Sheeps A Person Who Goes Against The Narrative Will Indeed Be Seen As Insane In This Clown World

[@syedmerajahmed7347]

@@lucmermans37 What proof do u hv that he was mentally insane?

[@sleepyjoe7241]

What majority? The jews who hate him are a very small minority.

[@anativeeuropean226]

He spoke the truth.

[@preciousamaechi5887]

Bobby!!!!!!!! There never was any like him!

[@medexamtoolsdotcom]

No, he didn't go insane at all. He just built up a set of very unpopular opinions. That doesn't make him insane. That just makes him edgy. RIP you beautiful omega edgelord.

[@madflaka4087]

His opinions are not unpopular it’s only unpopular under an American propaganda machine but everyone else in the world agrees that Israel is an apartheid regime which is ironic coming from another Jew like Bobby Fischer

[@swishwet8589]

He openly denied the Holocaust and was very anti-semetic. If that isn't insane to you than you are insane as well.

[@madflaka4087]

@@swishwet8589 he denied the number of deaths and the proportion of it

[@swishwet8589]

@@madflaka4087 your point? Best documented geneside in history and widely agreed to be the biggest tragedy in human history. You can't deny the numbers of something like that.

[@madflaka4087]

@@swishwet8589 agreed on by who is the Jewish scholars you’re asking for the most biased answer

[@houtarooreki9802]

This video seems to show Bobby in a bad light, when in reality he was just recognizing some unspoken patterns in society and had an intelligence high enough to make the average think of him as paranoid, when he was not and was simply speaking from a different viewpoint.

[@coffeetalk924]

I'm forced to disagree. Removing dental filings because he thought they could pick up mind controlling radio signals. Thought everything was bugged, or he was being poisoned. Governments were out to get him, etc etc. All classic signs and symptoms of hyper-paranoia!

[@olasek7972]

„From a different viewpoint”, 🤡 I guess Charles Manson also had his own viewpoint

[@santanubanerjee5479]

​@@coffeetalk924 That is because you are not the victim here. So obviously all things necessary will seem mad to you. Like climate activists are mad and the oil drillers are not when they are the ones who should be banned...

[@houtarooreki9802]

@@olasek7972 yeah he did. Except that Bobby did not harm society in a way that Manson did. Bobby was being eccentric ( and yes probably paranoid too), we never know. We can never understand what really went through his mind , all I mean is that let us not have biases that's all.

[@coffeetalk924]

@@santanubanerjee5479I'm sorry we'll have to agree to disagree.

[@Lou-jl4ov]

Pattern recognition off the charts. He knew.....

[@jojogalit2750]

Thank you for sharing Cindy (Newsthink)❤ 👏👏👏

[@richardpaulson8280]

I believe Bobby could see things other people couldn't see. He wasn't insane. Everyone has made mistakes in life and sometimes believing lies did not make him crazy. I believe he was saner than most people writing here who think themselves sane. But I believe he did not have anyone to talk to that could listen and understand him, and that he was therefore frustrated and lonely. He needed spiritual guidance and someone intelligent to talk to, but he lacked that kind of help. He understood that the world is an abominably evil place, and thought people were insane for not seeing this.

[@gregorymorse8423]

He was gaslighted by the Feds, not surprising he seemed crazy. He tried to fight back intellectually too late in life. His brain was by then too programmed for chess.

[@SamuelAParra]

Without judging anything of the point and understanding it's a subjective matter, I gotta remark that the world isn't “abominable” by definition, but rather a soup of possibilities. Life can be wonderful and calling this, the place we inhabit, as so is just an arrogant way of humans to classify their world without fully understanding it.

[@gregorymorse8423]

@@SamuelAParra he was gaslighted by a large network of criminals holding security clearances. Just because most people don't get such treatment, doesn't mean that a small number of famous or soon to be famous people get it. Same old empire nonsense which has been around for millenia. Fortunately other countries know what's going on and more so these days and some put some limits on it albeit if they are supported by an opposing empire. It's nasty, it's ugly and if people understood how their world was actually managed, the whole thing would collapse in a heartbeat.

[@theincompleteskeptic8079]

@@SamuelAParra yes.

[@mirage7908]

classic brain dmg take

[@jamesw9930]

It needs to be mentioned the Tal and Fischer were very good friends and Tal never would have "mocked" bobby. Its more likely he was just teasing an old friend.

[@dollarcostbackpacker1226]

This whole thing is full of lies...

[@ulrichschmidt5559]

When Tal had to go to hospital during the 1962 Candidates Tournament, Bobby was the only one of the competitors who visited Tal in hospital and kept him company. Tal was such a nice person, he would never have mocked Bobby, indeed!

[@alanconley5005]

Wow very good great narration and naration voice. I hope you get a lot of voice over work. Most importantly I learned something😊 Thank you

[@Socialsoda]

thanks for making this! great story!

[@calmingcrist4515]

Based. Bobby Fischer is a legend.

[@innertubez]

Not based at all. I think this was a very well-done video. Fair.

[@lewiscoacher7781]

@@innertubez I like where you're going with this.

[@calmingcrist4515]

The Jewish people have been thrown out of 359 different countries Nations or States, that tells you something, is the whole world anti-semitic is the whole world anti- Jewish or are these people organising in different countries all over the world in a way that is not conducive to the well-being of the indigenous people of those Nations.

[@dollarcostbackpacker1226]

@@innertubez what do you mean?

[@MrShanester117]

You said based so now you’re cool 😂

[@worsethanjoerogan8061]

Was he that paranoid? The US government really was out to get him after he played in Yugoslavia. The Soviets totally did arrange draws in international tournaments sometimes.

[@agentkruger33]

A classical tactic of Jewish pressure groups is to paint someone as "extremist" or "insane" in the eyes of the public. And that's exactly what happened to Bobby Fischer the moment he started criticizing Jews. With his influential position as the world's best chess player, obviously the Jewish higher-ups weren't going to have any of it. To learn who rules over you, find out who you are not allowed to criticize. - Someone

[@blahbla529]

He managed to offend everyone 💀

[@rileyvonbevern4652]

Morphy, Fischer, and Carlsen are 3 men whom have dominated chess so utterly and thoroughly. BUT Robert James Fischer did what no other man could do, topple the soviet dominance

[@podunkest]

Well, Carlsen is playing in an era where there is no soviet dominance to topple - It's an age-old question that will/can never be truly answered and the game has changed so much since Fischer's peak due to the natural progression of the game and computers (Chess Engines) being used very intensively to study - If Magnus Carlsen went back in time and played in Fischer's time with his current repertoire and knowledge, I think anyone who follows chess would agree, he would dominate everyone. But the real question is: if Fischer were to come in to his own today where would he stand? No doubt he'd be one of the best in the world, probably top 3 if not the best. It's impossible to ever say because of what engines have done to the game. Magnus is, imo, the best ever but it's kind of an unfair comparison.

[@rileyvonbevern4652]

@@podunkest Fischer and magnus would have a pretty epic rivalry. The real question though is what would happen if stockfish would pay a mentat from dune

[@podunkest]

@@rileyvonbevern4652 they would draw a thousand times in a row lol

[@chandie5298]

@@podunkest Fischer beat GIANTS... Carlsen beats ants, relatively speaking.

[@podunkest]

@@chandie5298 you can't say Fabiano Caruana is an ant dude... Or Ian or Hikaru or Ding, etc.. Fabi had like the second or third highest rating of all time at one point and we'll never be able to say with certainty due to engines but to think the top players in the world today are somehow worse than in the past seems kind of silly to me to put it politely. If you sent any of the top players today back in time they would walk whoever they played but again, that's due, a lot, to the existence of stockfish. It's a pointless debate.

[@billmkyzl933]

I met a woman who went to Erasmus H.S. She was in Fischers class. She told me he had no friends hardly showed up. He sat in the back end seat. Everyone knew who he was. Then he stopped going.

[@serpentines6356]

Yeah. That would be tough on a kid who is a loner, but becomes famous at 13, 14. It would make me wacky.

[@skipslash7367]

6:11 he's not actually wrong

[@Frisia-]

poor guy. even his marriage was ruined

[@cjbatesii]

In the documentary "Two Kings for a Crown", which is primarily about the Karpov-Kasparov World Championships, I was surprised to find out that Fischer secretly negotiated a match (which never came to pass) with Karpov in '76, the year after the Soviet-controlled FIDE deemed his World Championship forfeit. Thus, he wasn't afraid of it, but wanted to do it on his own terms, as always...

[@hector9586]

His terms was doing games until 12 wins like old masters, imagine that in today's era, with most of the games ending in a draw.

[@MrSupernova111]

@@hector9586 . Imagine something like that happening in the 1984-85 match against Kasparov? Oh wait, they did play indefinitely until Karpov was deemed too ill to continue. It seems that if FIDE could allow Karpov and Kasparov indefinitely then they could have done it for Fischer as well.

[@TheSavagederek]

It was Nikitin who reported the talks of the match against Karpov and it was vitoed.

[@robmorr23]

Charles Bates, thanks for reminding me of the 1976 negotiations between Karpov and Fischer. I read 📚 about it.

[@Ziegfried82]

@@MrSupernova111 Exactly. Make them keep playing until someone breaks..that is a proper chess tournament.

[@meocats]

Fischer was not insane. Let us leave conspiracies aside and move out with the great gift of Fischer Random Chess that he has left us. This verison of chess has 960 possible starting positions which are randomly generated in order to avoid the possibility of memorizing chess moves, which Fischer said took the joy out of chess. Make chess fun again 2022 and beyond !

[@trinitymatrix9719]

Fischer was indeed insane in his later days....

[@jeanpaul4100]

He didn't go insane. He could see behind the veil from an early age. They appear insane from those who are asleep.

[@anonymous_user5038]

He was not crazy he just knew something we dont

[@ecannon649]

I used to work with a guy like Fischer. He was the smartest person I ever met. I consider myself above average intelligence, he made me feel stupid at times. He could do anything he set his mind to. However he was an absolute crack pot, massive temper tantrums, hitting himself in the face with his own fist, etc. He wasn't insane but everyone in the shop could see he had a bunch of lose screws, no one could deny he was very intelligent.

[@tesso.6193]

Can't have it all I suppose. It's like fate gives with one hand and takes with the other.

[@olegprovochevitch8851]

@@tesso.6193 So true!

[@MARKEDONE47_]

@@yiannimitropoulos3913its crazy, most highly intelligent people I’ve ever met are antisemitic. I wonder why? 🤔

[@MARKEDONE47_]

@@yiannimitropoulos3913 I’d say my comment was far from extreme. If You REALLY want to read some extreme comments I suggest You go read what plenty of Israeli officials have said about the Palestinian people in the past 3 months. Now THOSE comments are extreme…

[@MARKEDONE47_]

@@yiannimitropoulos3913 I just posted 2 comments right now and one was deleted as well. Trust Me it happens to everyone.

[@sleptboomer2470]

It is impossible to compare chess players from different generations because every generation learns from the generation before and this generation learns from chess engines. Having said that, he was easily the greatest chess player of all time.

[@jameshogan6142]

Alekhine fans might take a different view, I loved Bobby but the first Russian world champion was also a giant slayer.

[@Icannottolerateit]

The best in the modern age is no doubt Kasparov. The best when comparing to contemporaries is Morphy .

[@Ziegfried82]

Not so. Fischer and Kasparov would smoke any modern chess player so yes it is easy to compare generations at least so far. As you say maybe we will see some humans trained by chess engines that can do better.

[@innosanto]

Morphy also could be.

[@JohnSmith-oe5kx]

@@Icannottolerateit There is always doubt when the criteria are themselves the matter of debate. And the study of chess in Morphy's day was nothing like it was in Fischer's, so that comparison is hard to make.

[@user-ol4tt1we3c]

Bobby was never ever insane - he died in 2016 as sane as the day he was born. True.

[@user-ug3kh1ot7p]

2008

[@xmoomy]

Bobby wasn't crazy, he just was aware of the crazy world he lived in more than most.

[@Chris-vi6tg]

he didnt go insane, thats just how mainstream culture views genius.

[@dollarcostbackpacker1226]

At the end of the video, they tell you the fbi was tracking his parents his entire life... obviously him too.

[@ElwoodBluesAK]

I'm not comparing Ye to Bobby in any way, but both were called crazy for "similar reasons".

[@phillygroyper]

Yo based!

[@giomusicprod]

And they speakings facts!

[@sigurjonvilhjalmsson5009]

I am proud of my country to welcome Bobby Fischer in his last and toughest years. I believe he found solace in our small, beautiful country. May his brilliant mind rest in peace.