Ten years in prison, merely
for playing a chess match in a taboo country, twelve years ago!?
...A very sad downfall of a great
Champion, and the greatest chess player in history. If any good comes of it he will get some treatment for his
mental illness, a paranoid psychosis, and return to chess. But I'm not optimistic.
I love how all the idiots
have been demonizing him for being paranoid. So many people haven't learned a thing, despite all the information
out there about mental illness.
I've been following Bobby Fischer since I was eleven. He is a fascinating
figure in history.
The tremendously dramatic '72 match with Spassky was one of the monumental events of the
Cold War. It was quite something to have the eyes of the world riveted to a chess match. Fischer was truly a hero at
that time, for a country that badly needed one.
Had he stayed in chess he would have beaten everyone, for a long
time.
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