Yasser Seirawan Tells Crazy Bobby Fischer Stories

[@alexcarter8807]

He's like the Bob Ross of chess

[@naromecuas8635]

That is so accurate

[@glitchinthematrix3559]

😂

[@strangebrew1231]

Unintentional ASMR is the best. Regular ASMR with the whispering pisses me off

[@zenrando]

No he like the Trump of chess

[@xDEEZKNUGHTZx]

"I'mma move this happy little pawn across the board, and it blossoms into another beautiful Queeeeeen!"

[@Rspknlikeab0ssxd]

Dude I could just listen to stories about Bobby all day, and hearing the stories from Yasser is pure art

[@nlpuckett8868]

Oh my god. Yasser is quite literally a gentleman and a scholar. That man will never know how loved he is online

[@raygordonteacheschess5501]

He is a truly great guy and it's not an act..

[@jadezee6316]

my guess is he is smart enough TO STAY AWAY from people who fall in love with him by seeing him online...YIKES

[@arkancer2210]

@@jadezee6316 it's not romantic love

[@KhubbaS]

@@arkancer2210 seriously, what a knucklehead. Clearly the commenter meant charmed or enamored with his character. Is there not enough data of Seirawan’s behavior online to form a sort of aesthetic judgment of his character? We form such judgments of a person after a much briefer exposure to them in ordinary life. Ridiculous.

[@judahslion5611]

He spoke so well of Bobby even after Fischer verbally attacked him in an interview calling him horrible names and claiming he was another "crooked jew".

[@NotTheWheel]

GM Seirawan is the Nicest guy - I hope to meet him someday. He's been such a mentor to so many from his lectures online.

[@centrelink6003]

Hello. I am Yasser’s personal assistant. He read your comment and would also like to meet you! Not only that, he is willing to fly you out to his private Caribbean island for you to have dinner with him!

[@zackarysemancik5491]

@@centrelink6003 the dream ahaha

[@robmorr23]

Not the I met him years ago in the st .Louis chess club during the Sinqfeld cup. He has broad shoulders and a compact body. At those events it's easiest to meet him. I situated myself by the door when the games were winding down. If you go to the St. Louis chess club make sure you know the players off day because there is one and they don't tell you when you call. No need to waste a trip which can get expensive.

[@kensandale243]

"GM Seirawan is the Nicest guy - I hope to meet him someday" Why would you want to meet a boring sycophant?

[@jeffmiller6954]

He is a nice guy and was one even as a teenager -- although it may have also been sincere, he was very aware of his image as a grandmaster and how behaving like a gentlemen would help him get interviewed etc.

[@TheNameOfJesus]

Yasser's voice is so soft and gentle it sounds like the kind of voice a guy should speak with when proposing to his girlfriend.

[@cyberhype5495]

Bobby loved Argentina so much he learned Spanish and tried to get the 1972 WC held in Buenos Aires

[@george3737]

I remember Yasser 50 years ago!! We all have gotten older!!

[@Eleuthero5]

Yasser must be one of the all time nicest GMs in chess history. He's got so many stories and he tells them well.

[@jadezee6316]

i can understand why bobby quit playing.....he saw no point to have all that pressure on himself that he put up with till he beat spassky...he simply needed to let it go to maintain his sanity...no fischer was never crazy....never insane....

[@seka1986]

Thanks for the excellent video. Yasser is a class act.

[@trollol_]

1:58 My favorite picture of Mr. Fischer. May he rest in peace.

[@threethrushes]

Yasser's mellifluous timbre and thoughtful speech is a lost art, a lost skill. Yasser, you are a scholar and a gentleman. Thank you.

[@MWilsonME]

Well put.

[@MynameisPadre]

What tha....

[@Wargasm54]

Some 5$ words 😂

[@enlightenedwarrior7119]

I'm not a chess genius I'm a genius who plays chess. Bobby Fischer

[@radicalbradical3164]

he also said something about how he doesn't believe in psychology but that went nowhere.

[@atlslugger14]

@@radicalbradical3164 He said "I don't believe in psychology, I only believe in good moves" or something very close to that. He was referring to using psychology in a chess match, not psychology in general. His point was that he did not think psychology could win a chess game, but only good moves can. I am not totally sure I agree with what he said, but he did not simply say "I don't believe in psychology."

[@jeffmiller6954]

I agree that Fischer probably could have been really good at anything mathematical/analytical he turned his hand to but he focused on chess and read only garbage books and pamphlets and ended up contributing nothing outside of chess and hurting a lot of people with his nastiness.

[@radicalbradical3164]

@@atlslugger14 psychology does have a lot to do with chess and he knew it as his big stature and frame intimidated opponents.

[@lukeedward9748]

@@radicalbradical3164 Your math dont quite add up...Im 6 ft 4 an and when i lay down my moves (1 f3) ect nobodys intimidated lol

[@reybarreto7979]

What a wonderful story teller this man is. The stories themselves are intriguing but the WAY he tells them makes them all the more riveting. He is a master raconteur, as masterful at telling Bobby Fischer anecdotes as Bobby was at playing chess.

[@Chris.M]

Yasser is the best story teller in chess ever.

[@00bikeboy]

Maybe, but you wouldn't know it from the editing. Just butchered his stories.

[@javicoesp]

Really?

[@raygordonteacheschess5501]

Wait until you hear what I can't reveal yet about Fischer LOL

[@carlosfcruz-rr9hp]

I agree.

[@FMDD168]

Sorry, but nothing new or even interesting here. I expected some unknown anecdotes about Fischer, but we didn't get it here.

[@MrSupernova111]

Priceless! Thank you so much for posting this!

[@Antmanwald0423]

I’m painting a pic of young Fischer right now and this pops up, had to watch.

[@matteovrizzi]

Bobby vs A Mongolian :-)

[@ChrisHyde537]

Bobby could’ve eaten at City Wok for life for that alone.

[@cantankerouspatriarch4981]

*Shitty Wok (Can I taekah ohdah preaz?)

[@a.j.animations2235]

thank u for compiling these videos

[@PIANOPHUNGUY]

I visited the US Open in Pasadena in 1983. The tournament being held in Pasadena I had hoped Fischer would show up. He didn't, but I met Viktor Korchnoi and he signed his 400 best games book. I also got Peter Falk's autograph. (movie,t.v. actor) He liked chess.

[@ronaldsmith531]

YES. I played in the US Open in 1983 and got a plus score. Peter Faulk did indeed show up. Later I played Viktor Korchnoi in a simultaneous exhibition in Santa Monica. I was up a pawn with rooks on the board. Korchnoi offered me a draw. I turned it down and lost. I had fun.

[@xXG3TPWNEDXx]

I love Yasser's enthusiasm.

[@nth7273]

I want to see the pizza move.

[@bboybrian]

4.bp.blogspot.com/-VEz7Lm9AfwA/UbEp66-fUBI/AAAAAAAACJY/fM9fj4Ib6G8/s1600/pizzapos.jpg Bobby is black, his opponent just played Nd5 to Nf4.

[@Michael-vf2mw]

@@bboybrian The move is Rxf4, correct?

[@maoufa]

@@Michael-vf2mw of course

[@maoufa]

Gabriel Beauchemin Rxf4!

[@mrgameknot1763]

@Gabriel Beauchemin lichess.org/analysis/r5k1/pb2p2p/2q3p1/2p1b1B1/5r1Q/6PP/PP4B1/R5K1_w_q_-_0_1

[@radicalrick9587]

What drawn me to this vid was, when I first Read Yasser Seirawan Book on End Games, checked out from a library, I loved the first few pages that I went and bought the book. So I already knew he was awesome. His books has a lot of sense of humors in them. A departure from the usual boring chess books.

[@tonypeter8209]

Bobby Fischer is a great chess legend, GM Seirawan is a nice chess champion 💯

[@andrewptob]

I didn't realize Fischer's request for a first-to-10-wins match against Karpov came down to just one vote in Karpov's favor. Imagine if Fischer had won that vote! Damn. Well, he may have not played for one reason or another still, but I think he would've played and that's really sad to think about.

[@raygordonteacheschess5501]

Fischer had no intentionof playing Karpov or anyone ever again. He told me that personally. Said he had nothing left to prove and wanted me to carry on his work. I had the highest math scores or very close on the citywide tests. Said he never saw a player (including himself) with talent on my level. He was right.

[@stevenmiller7747]

Ray Gordon Teaches Chess I traveled constantly with Bobby and he continuously talked about you being the worst chess player he ever saw.

[@andrewptob]

@@stevenmiller7747 Lol

[@raygordonteacheschess5501]

@@stevenmiller7747 Well I was SEVEN at the time..

[@stevenmiller7747]

Ray Gordon Teaches Chess and that’s what made Bobby the MASTER! He could tell when you were 7 that you would never be any good and time has proven him right. We stayed up until the wee hours of the morning many a time and if he said it once he said it a million times “that 7 year old Ray is the worst chess player ever in the history of the world”

[@averagejohnson3985]

"Boom budda boom boom boom, and Bingo Bongo" - Yasser Seirawan

[@Madnoxlol]

Yasser is a legend.

[@ConcreteBombDeep]

Someone be a legend and compile every single story Yasser has ever said into a 10 hour clip.

[@stevefowler2112]

Re: Bobby's Olympiad game lectures in his suite and how much everyone was excited to attend them. Reminds of a story my Dad (Pop was a Radar Guidance Engineer with GE) told me that when he was a Redstone Arsenal when Dr. von Braun was there in the mid 50's that every Friday night Dr. von Braun would host a party at his house where all things rocket science could be discussed...my Dad said everyone got there early for the same reason to get to stand next to Dr. von Braun and hear him speak on whatever subject was broached (a Ph.D. Aerospace Engineer who works for a large American defense contractor's Missile Systems company and avid chess player.

[@johnstevenson9956]

I've read 4 of Seirawan's books, (over and over) and would love to see him come out with a book on this subject.

[@maoufa]

Havne't read any of his books. Which one do you recommend? ( I'm rated ~1950 USCF)

[@johnstevenson9956]

@@maoufa The 4 I read were in a series. They may not be advanced enough for you but they were fun going through. "Play Winning Chess", "Openings", "Winning Chess Tactics" and "Winning Strategies". So, whichever sounds like the most fun.

[@srj34]

He's basically already written a book on this subject. The book of the 1992 Fischer-Spassky match (titled No Regrets) has all of Yasser's personal encounters with Bobby.

[@carlossimancas9867]

He has a wonderful book about legends: "Chess duels". Its a treasure

[@johnstevenson9956]

@@carlossimancas9867 I need to find that one.

[@clarenceyee3529]

The late 50s early 60s felt like a golden age of chess with so many great Fischer tournaments - Portoroz, Zurich, 1959 Candidates, Mar del Plata, Bled, 62 Interzonal

[@davigurgel2040]

Reading the title, I didn't knew if it was "crazy (bobby fischer stories)" or "(crazy bobby fischer) stories"

[@rubenbarrera7338]

Little bit of A .. Little bit of B lol

[@davidblack2970]

And the picture showing Fisher giving somebody the finger was really tacky also. But the headline was definitely intended to play up Fisher's later mental problems, which I find repugnant. Why Seirawan felt the need to do either of these two things is beyond me.

[@danielaitken1459]

@@davidblack2970 This isn't his channel

[@GH-oi2jf]

@@davidblack2970 - He didn’t “need” to, he chose to.

[@ritamdeb2232]

A lot of people blame Fischer for forfeiting the 1975 Championship against Karpov, and to some extent it is deserved. However people tend to forget that in the very next World Championship match (Karpov-Korchnoi 1978) and beyond, FIDE adopted the "first to win n games" rule that Fischer had suggested. Even in 1975 there was a significant percentage of masters who agreed with Fischer, and I personally believe that Karpov would have accepted Fischer's terms without question if given the choice.

[@Wtahc]

greatest player of all time

[@akshaylm1076]

Thanks for this compilation

[@Molly_Rzr]

RIP Bobby, we miss and love you

[@xSmuckerZxJelly]

Don’t miss his rampant anti-semitism

[@bigfootsburneraccount9160]

​@@xSmuckerZxJellyoh no, someone said something mean about you.

[@JackSchytte]

I love listening to Yasser. He's on my fantasy dinner party team. Such a charming and wise man.

[@interqward1]

Seirawan - not necessarily fair to say 'the most underrated player of all time' because heaps of knowledgeable people know how good he is. Let's say, most under-promoted great chess player of all time.

[@petercavanaugh2434]

Poor Bobby...... the KGB had his number. Such a sad story.

[@VoidRockSteady]

Yasser we all love you and your enthusiasm for the the game of Kings. Us Kurdish chess players love you as well. I started playing the English because of you. I appreciate the game more now because of you. You’re an inspiration just as much as Fischer. Peace be with you!💚✌️🌺

[@antoniobreaux1584]

VoidRockSteady I also started with the English because of him!

[@andrewirish7720]

I think Yasser could tell me stories about paint drying and I would sit there in rapt attention.

[@DeanMoriartyTTBS]

Finding this video this morning was a brilliancy ty utube algorithm

[@Bheemagni]

how i wish we had Bobby Fischer now playing against Magnus Carlsen...

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Come on! Bobby Fischer beat the weakest chess World champion Boris Spassky only 17 wins 10 losses! Carlsen would beat Spassky easily 6 wins 6 draws zero losses! Capablanca would beat Spassky easily 8 wins 6 draws zero losses!! Carlsen would beat Fischer 30 times easily because Spassky won 10 times against Fischer!!

[@nathanaelstasinski9855]

Great Video. Yasser really comes across as a great man!

[@NYCBG]

OK,I understood. Some of you in the audience, don't have any idea what this guy is talking about! Well, worry not! Seirawan is one of the world's greatest storytellers. And here you haver - at your free behest - Y.Seirawan himself sharing with you some of his best shorties! Frankly, I feel like building a purple monument to Yasser Seirawan right now! You know, I am sure, that feeling when you're are totally overwhelmed... overjoyed, over...everything!

[@Dybbouk]

Story I heard was that Bobby loved eating gargantuan Lebanese meals at Yasser's place.

[@ChrisHyde537]

Who wouldn’t?

[@Alamyst2011]

I read that wrong. And laughed super hard

[@smegheadGOAT]

Yasser Seirawan the only guy to talk with kindness about the great late MR FISCHER

[@JamstzyTv]

Love Yasser narrating Bob Stories

[@gwenroberts8649]

Beautiful Yasser!

[@Flum666]

being paranoid doesn't mean you aren't being followed

[@renehenriksen1735]

Spasskij got paranoid too, during their match in 1972, but no one ever mentions that. His paranoia there was probably as justified as Fischer´s but no one ever talks about him being paranoid or delusional.

[@donsmith3857]

you just referenced my famous thought for the day : just because youre paranoid, doesnt mean people arent out to get you" great minds think alike--welcome to the club lol

[@radicalbradical3164]

but being paranoid to that extent is insanity. I highly doubt he was followed.

[@Flum666]

@@radicalbradical3164 during the '72 worlds he was 100% being followed by both CIA and KGB

[@radicalbradical3164]

@@Flum666 maybe you should get help too

[@johnmarvel8729]

8:56 Lol what a fun story.. after the Mongolian repeat for the third time, then it's a threefold repetition and the game was drawn.

[@galt67]

Thank you, sir! Wonderful, enthralling stories.

[@sybergaus]

the wooden shield equivilent to the pizza move

[@kebecois71]

Gatta love GM Seirawan's story telling :)

[@g.g.hochstetler2286]

6:16 brutal move. I didn’t see the issue until I noticed the dark squared bishop ready to deflect the Queen.

[@xanbex8324]

This is great ....thank you so much.

[@Summanininruhu]

Boby was crazy. Victim of the cold war Anti Soviet hysteria-paranoia.He was not alone. If you watch the movie "Beautiful mind" you realise how strong and wide that mania was.

[@richardfeynman5560]

Karpov would have been by far the strongest opponent in Fischer's chess careear. Bobby saw the possibility of losing more than one game against Anatoli. I'm sure that Fischer would have won this match, but not as easy as against Spasski. Furthermore, Karpov was 24 years old and had some potential, he would have learned a lot playing Fischer and in another match in 1978 who knows what could have been. So Bobby preferred to play no more tournament chess and keep his undefeated status.

[@smurfin1250]

Fax

[@macleadg]

In Yasser’s book, he says that Karpov would have beaten Bobby. Yasser also says Fischer was #3 all time, behind Kasparov & Karpov.

[@dusanninic9572]

Surely you're joking mr. Feynman !!! 😂😂😂😂😉👌🏻

[@toast2610]

What was unfair about Fischer's conditions? Do you believe Fischer would have pulled out even if they were met? What nonsense.

[@radicalrick9587]

Great Job On the Vid, I truly enjoy it.

[@TheBlurayHacker]

underrated video

[@leodf1]

So he WAS being followed all along!

[@joeambrose3260]

A reliable source claims that some of these stories have been embellished by Mr Seirawans' extremely creative imagination

[@michaelclark1330]

Yasser is the reason why my Fischer number is 4! 😅 I at one point beat a local FM who beat an IM, who in turn defeated GM Yasser Seriwan, who at one point, beat the most dominant player in chess history!

[@davidstewart58]

An interesting insight into the World of Bobby Fischer and a quick 45 minutes. Bobby's problems escalated on a downward spiral, once he decided to stop playing Chess.

[@toast2610]

Some people will read the devil's temptation of Jesus in the Bible, and call that a downward spiral too.

[@niagra898]

Bobby was TOO smart for chess.

[@EternalGlory24]

0:09 respect for Sicilian Defense: Quinteros Variation!!!

[@iamable915]

Yasser is a kind human

[@ButOneThingIsNeedful]

The Mongolian story (8:56 -- excellently told by Seirawan) had me shaking with laughter right along with them. Great punchline too.

[@wowdude2347]

this dude definitely has a bobby fischer shrine in his house

[@waynebrinker8095]

You don't?

[@hiandriu5186]

Thank you for putting this video together!

[@pkskyw]

the way yasser speaks, the Buddha preached his disciples to speak the same way softly and compassionately. You rarely get to meet people who speak this way God bless him

[@VincesInHocSigno]

Great editing!

[@bobbybobbatunday9959]

I assume you mean that to be sarcastic. The editor seems to think that chess fans can only follow a story for 30 seconds.

[@keithkuhn6404]

Donald Byrne once told me a great story about Fischer winning a tournament in NYC and the presentation of the winning prize ceremony at the end. You have probably heard it.

[@johnteixeira8974]

Do tell!

[@keithkuhn6404]

@@johnteixeira8974 If there is space here, I will copy it in the following reply.

[@keithkuhn6404]

@@johnteixeira8974 I was a student at the time and a member of the PSU chess club in 72-75. Donald had Lupus erythematosus and was scheduled for (dangerous) abdominal surgery in Philadelphia. They had a tributary dinner at a local country club, I believe 1974, and many in the chess community were invited, even lowly members of the chess club (i.e. me). After the tributes to Donald Byrne were given, he gave a response which involved several stories. I believe this story takes place some time in the mid to late 1950s, in New York city. At the awards ceremony, the winners were on stage to receive their checks. Fischer having won the tournament took his check and immediately started to walk of the stage. Donald Byrne stepped in front of Bobby and explained to him that it was a matter of courtesy to thank the organizers and say something about the tournament. For this part of the story, Donald spoke in a heavy New York City accent. Paraphrasing Fischer: “I want to thank the organizers for inviting so many fish, so I had easy games.” Donald Byrne left Fischer walk on by this time.

[@chrisang64]

Benicio Del Toro as Yasser Seirawan.👏

[@raygordonteacheschess5501]

Nah, try Vai Sikahema!

[@stevenmiller7747]

I’d get an actor who actually looked like Seirawan but that’s just me.

[@italianhockeywall]

To think I've been pronouncing Max Euwe 'Max U-E,' not 'Max Irva.' Man, I could listen to Yasser's stories all day.

[@daniellepearsall4978]

Cool vid, I have heard most of these stories, but a great vid, thanx

[@stoundingresults]

These are good and well told stories

[@carlingtonme]

This is fascinating

[@chevypurdie8294]

Great video! Do you know the name of the background music you used in the first minute?

[@andredecolife]

Amazing story of bobby hiding in the bushes 🤣

[@martinjoseph3672]

Love how she brought up his 3 loses

[@MrSupernova111]

She knows her stuff!

[@robertnowak7248]

Wonderful!

[@martm216]

Yasser is a good raconteur.

[@EfficientRVer]

While Fischer owed us nothing, I do feel he let us down. I realize the reasons were probably diagnosable, so it's hard to blame him. Yet it was such a shame he wasn't sociable and reasonable, because the "Fischer boom" would have been so much larger and longer-lasting if he had remained engaged with at least the chess community if not the world. I'm 3 years older than Yasser, and part of the boom, though I never became a seriously strong player. Just the best player on my high school team, and regained that strength plus a bit more when taking up recreational play again after retirement.

[@TheBlurayHacker]

great video

[@alancoe1002]

I want to hear a few Viktors Pupols stories someday. Old Uncle Vik.

[@georgesia9347]

the great storyteller of chess

[@lolopolo5064]

too sweet....

[@vwazp]

first to ten wins seems extremely goood rules

[@stevesidare2493]

Nice video, love Yasser, but the fragmentation of content is disrupting.

[@reteipdevries]

9:30 But what game was that and which move? Can't find a game in 1966 Olympiad against ' A Mongolian' .

[@kojiattwood]

I think it was Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren in a tournament game in 1967 at the Sousse Interzonal?

[@claudrebille178]

Is that BENICIO? He ll get an OSCAR , I sure , for playing YASSER

[@ostapbender7528]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@michael2244]

Anna is alright lookin =)

[@PrinceTiger-r8l]

The best part was definately 8:56.

[@Joseph-on7nf]

Amazing

[@ace942]

Not sure if anyone can answer this question. When he talked about Jim Slater doubling the prize fund, there is a shot of the first game on July 11, 1972 where Spassky is waiting and there is some type of furniture to the right of the players. What was the purpose of that furniture?

[@massrefuge4282]

seats for arbiters

[@crazyboysince1998]

Amans reaction to that name had me dying

[@StephenDoty84]

Yasser makes Richard Simmons sound like John Wayne.

[@waynebrinker8095]

Get bent, pilgrim.

[@StephenDoty84]

@@waynebrinker8095 There you go, proving my point. The last refuge of a dummy is insult, silly. Gotcha again!

[@waynebrinker8095]

@@StephenDoty84 No got and no cha. It's not an insult, it's a directive.

[@StephenDoty84]

@@waynebrinker8095 No, dummy, wrong part of the comment; "pilgrim" was the insult. You keep falling flat on your face.

[@17donhol]

Seems like a nice guy.. Is it me or is he a little light innthe loafers tho ?.. Reminds me of Liberace somewhat ...🙂

[@waynebrinker8095]

Hmm....it's probably you, but you seem like a guy.

[@JohnS-il1dr]

He's a batter. He talked about flirting with a female professor when she looked up and down at Yasser.

[@Pretzeliminator]

Wow, I'm so dum I can't see the mate at 6:27. ????????? Somebody can help?

[@Boudicca-the-musical]

RxR (or QxR, Qg2 mate), BxN pinning the queen and paving the way for Qg2 mate next move.

[@kevinworrell889]

David is 100% correct. I was going to reply but saw he covered it perfectly.

[@gonfalon]

The guy's name is Donald Byrne; not Robert Byrne. How do you get this wrong? Just asking.

[@toast2610]

Donald was Roberts's younger brother. Both played chess.