Robert Moses D. Mendel James The most hated man in Iceland. Wilhelm Steinitz Bobby Fischer Paul Nemenyi
A man win World Championship bursts into fame. Add to this, the eccentricities exhibited by Bobby Fischer, along the row over the world center for chess, his failure to appear later before Karpov, his retirement for years of the scenarios. The result is a legend that the media were responsible for glorifying and immortalizing, beyond the very genius and merit.
Never since both news media as radio and television in all the world is focused on both the broadcast of a chess match. As in those early years of unprecedented chess boom. Encouraged by the United States to win an ideological struggle and propaganda. Never again, a chess match, it was a "matter of state." The struggle between good and evil.
advertising only in terms comparable with the propaganda war that the USSR and the U.S. staged to conquer the cosmos. The U.S. support for ending the Russian supremacy in science was unusual game (they played the prestigious native) were anxious to have a cold war hero, so Fischer attracted more attention from the masses and the popular imagination. Some newspaper and then insinuating "The defeat of Spassky would be considered a major national decline: a Sputnik in reverse"
Kinsinger intervention achieving a halt to endless fads and whims of Fischer. Being able to realize at last: "The match of the century", as he named the dispute over the throne of the Russian Champion Spassky. Then to the countless demands of genius, commented: Lack Fischer asked that the sun sets three hours earlier. Reykjavik. Iceland was the match in a frenzy, but then curled to the rudeness of Fischer, who arrived in the newspapers described as "the most hated man in Iceland" These hundreds of demands, repeated years later in Yugoslavia. Before the start of their match-rematch with Spassky, an example is: ask Shirts 14, the same as those used in Reykjavik.
The dark gradually settled her mind, to make a living legend, a being ragged, of verbiage hurtful, and deschavetado.
The painter Van Gog, who to Throughout his life he was a neurotic, committed suicide, emotional instability, he did end his existence. Béljica Yugoslav journalist author of several books on chess. I mention to have accompanied Fischer to the movies, the night before a game of chess. The film was projected based on the life of the great Dutch painter Van Gogh, in an act of madness, in Arles France cut off his ear. When they left the film, Fischer said to his companion: "If I win tomorrow Smyslov, I cut an ear." Compliment "I would not succeed?
Children's destination and the best diagnosis, Fischer gave himself to ensure "Children without a parent become wolves" Fischer grew up as a solitary animal, sullen and rebellious, he grew up believing his father, whom she hardly ever saw was Gerhardt Fischer, who officially in the documents appeared to be the father of Bobby. Gerhard Fischer
German biophysicist, had fought against the Fascists during the English Civil War in 1930. Regina Gerhard married mother of Bobby, in Moscow (the two former communist), where she had studied several years of medicine. Regina's parents were Polish Jews. Regina and Gerhard time after they separated. Some say that before the birth of Bobby, other than when he was barely two years. The FBI assumed that Gerhardt was a Soviet agent. Regina left Russia, living in several U.S. states, reaching New York. Working as a nurse and long after age 55, he received his doctor in Germany. During these years, Regina was the subject of close monitoring that lasted thirty years by the Intelligence Bureau, on suspicion of her communist activism.
Fischer's biological father was actually Paul Nemenyi Hungarian scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project to detonate the bomb, according to Bobby knew years later. With an unstable mother, divorced, working double shifts. Fischer grew up devoid of love, paternal and maternal. She is the mother who assumes the role of provider, in exchange for the child's emotional abandonment. His sister Joan, I practically grew up
Fischer "blame her for the flight as a parent? Perhaps answer the question what he once said "All women are weak. They're stupid compared to men. They should never play chess." or "If I'm Jewish? Only by my mother. "Are not these hostile feelings because of abandonment? Then Bobby definitely her mother away from him. In 1972, during the game with Spassky in Iceland presented the Mother of Fischer, disguised a blond wig, attended as a fan anymore. "I have no choice but to remain crouched, as a shadowy figure, and I'm content with that," I confessed to Joan Rodker Regina: journalist, photographer and filmmaker. A friend of his years in Moscow.
Fischer seeking father figures "to reward their pain. "I hate to say personal things against people, but his father was my friend for many years, took me to see Knicks games, acted like a father to me and then later as a typical Jewish snake, said the worst things of me. " Fischer released her from close range, in Iceland, in a press conference Jeremy Schaap to mention this, in a question to his father. Bobby looked at his father psychologically, in Hitler and Nazism, I look at religion in the Worldwide Church of God sect, which is also helpless, taking all their money.
"Fischer's tragedy was probably their unrealistic views of the outside world and express Botvnik Mikhail, I added caused by a childhood, listening rambolescas news, intrigue, and activism and the vicissitudes of the mother. By observation, and persecution by the FBI. It difficult to even get a job Regina (another element to this family life, subject to paranoia), Fischer lived in emotional neglect and deprivation. In a 1952 letter explained that Regina could not afford to mend broken shoes boy-Bobby suffered physical neglect of his father and mother's affection. When Regina Bobby turned 16 he decided to study medicine and let your child alone in the apartment they shared in Brooklyn, justifying itself, arguing that "You're better off alone, without me is telling him all the time to do homework, eat or go to bed before one o'clock." "I'm tired," he wrote, "In those days, Fischer live in chaos, with clothes strewn across the department. Bobby slept every day, in a different bed and each had a game of chess. In this teenage Bobby showed his disrespect when I call: "a bunch of pigs" to the Russians. This occurred in the Moscow Chess Club.
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Fischer By age 20 participated and won the Stockholm interzonal, qualifying for the Candidates tournament to be played in Curacao, after a bad performance just mentioned lal, Fischer hayo no other explanation for his poor performance to accuse the Soviet-Petrosian, Keres, Geller, of rigging the games he was invincible Their belief led him to believe that was the victim of a conspiracy: "The Russian control of chess has reached a point where there can be no honest competition for the championship of the world"
Bisguir narrated that after capturing an insect Fischer, in his room, Bobby will be dedicated to deal it several blows in each of his legs. Commenting: "It was scary. Had it not been a chess player, might have been a dangerous psychopath. "
inherited talent by parents (mother spoke 8 languages) and the timely gift of a chess sister gave birth to his passion for science game, children can pretend or imitate perfectly selfless act, and do it to get approval parents, but the center of the universe of any child is himself. Before leaving this destination was reinforced self-centered. Emphasize the development of their skills and abilities, other than those representing people in their early environment and refuge there. His own mother, after they won the U.S. chess with only 14 years, described him as "a moody, lonely boy, unable to friends of his age, and no other interest in life, that the rooks, bishops and pawns. "
know many cases of anti-Semitic, misogynistic, misanthropic, racist, intolerant, fundamentalist and paranoid, as it was Fischer adding to the cesspool of history. Chess Fischer rescued from this fate. fill your imagination, and fantasy, his emotional void in childhood, given the opportunity in spite of the sorrow, to immortalize, despite having apostrophe in 1997 "Chess is not only a form of mental masturbation" and leave behind their own words so that commemorated: chess was not as life but it was life itself.
At one time a journalist asked the question if it bothered Fischer concentrate in such an obsessive chess Fischer admitted it was a problem, "because when you play chess you are no longer in contact with the real world once in a while in thought about quitting, but I've always said that you could otherwise do "
Chess awarded him perhaps with his love of Rhythm & Blues musical genre derived from jazz, gospel and blues the only happy moments of his anguished life. European
Dr. Gabriel Hood Vidal.
