It's not a reporter. This the plane bringing him from Japan to Iceland. There were diplomats, friends and maybe the chess federation chairman of Iceland. This is not an interview, it was a chat. Anyway, yes, I'd like him to let Bobby finish.

So annoying. You got Bobby Fisher talking and you jump in with yak yak yak... shut the f up and listen. Ahhh, at least I am not alone in my anger.

If you where around Fischer long enough you most definately would have enough of his scattered ramblings.

100% reporter ither scared off answear or probably just to dumb to think outside the box

@@lostinidlewonder he talks perfect sense

Yeah, i agree fully on this. For me. Im a 1300 rated player, i love chess. For me openings are still fun, also on clublevel. But gm's play 15 moves without thinking. Chess960 comes more down on your chess tactics, i really like it.

@@jeroenbarbier3508 Many times it is more than just 15 moves like the Sicilian or kings indian defence.

@@jeroenbarbier3508 shall i see you more in r/chess960? #9LX

First, unless youre a grandmaster it doesn't matter what theory you play, it's still a skill game. And even then he's wrong because even today with engine analysis and lots of theory games still get exciting at highest level, look at last rapid tourney, it was wild and new talent is aggressive, but that's all relative I guess. I think he would think differently about the rapid and blitz scene. Classical at the highest level is really the only place where it's dull as hell

@@OArchivesX But classical is where its ultimately at. Rapid and blitz are fun because people make mistakes so it validates his point.

LOL I love this.

The ability to play chess well is the sign of a combination of theory and talent, Moreso theory in higher levels (relative to other higher level people of course!). The ability to play 9LX well is the sign of talent.

It's ironic that after he retired from chess Morphy tried to start a failing law firm (mainly because his clients wanted to discuss chess with him), his family tried to send him to a mental insitution and he lived off of his family's fortune without achieving much.

@@jackurokawa3838 it’s not ironic. The quote was about himself as well as others. He knew he wasted his life with theory of chess

Thats really all bobby was trying to say.. He just wants it to have more meaning.. But the meaning of anything is found within yourself.

I feel bad for him. According to Hikaru, he worked so hard to be the best in chess only for computers, and the new generation of chess players out scale him just through purely memorization, and that drove him crazy.

It's not savage, it's sad. He gave his life to chess, but he couldn't cope with being on top.

@@svenniepennie4237 he lost interest and moved on. Why is it sad?

@@anom3778 He didn't lose interest and moved on. He lost himself and never moved onto anything else.

@@svenniepennie4237 well chess was all he really knew so you can make that arguement but he did lose interest and he did move on from it to what I dont know but I dont know if you know about his private life either.

also batshit like a wizard

Yeah...more like a "Grand Wizard." Really disappointing.

A legend, yes, as a misanthrope.

@@GH-oi2jf with all the negativity out there, can one really blame him?

@@CertifiedClapaholic yes

+GodlyTecker Chess is still a game on the board for all of as the amatures, byt in the top levelhas start to become dull. A strong Gm around 2550-2600 with white pieces, with the development of theory can make a lot of draws even with the WORLD CHAMPION. See what happen with Carsen last year when he try to get out of linewith GM ratedaround 2550-2650, and start lose a lot of games. I would love to see a mix of clasical chess, and Fisher random chess in big tournaments. Fisher random will we played when the player with black pieces has a big gap in rating point ahead from his oponemment ,lets say 100 rating points,then if he wants ,he can make the game playedin fiscer random, so in that way we can avoid white piece players who play onlu for the draw depending a lot in home preparetion.

+GodlyTecker Thats why Magnus Carlsen is the best player in the world after Fischer.

+GodlyTecker Chess is stupid its a game of full information, you dont need skill to win a game just good memory and experience when to play which kind of opening. The problem in chess is his structure, you gain full information on both side. On the long run the computer will always be better than you. That makes it a stupid game and thats the reason why he hated it. The keypoint in chess is kreativity people with autism have an edge over people without their sight this makes the game more stupid than everything. If you know all the random stuff you wouldnt start playing chess because it makes no sense at all.

+Blackbeard that's true for every sport. When you are at the top of your game and you are extremely higher than everyone else, the game loses grown for you. Chess is extremely competitive. Yes, it's about theory and learning moves, however, 99% of people will never get to a grandmaster level. You are always learning and always trying to get better. Micheal Jordan left NBA bc there was no talent - he was bored. Chess is all about out thinking your opponent. You can think it's a stupid game but history says otherwise.

+Blackbeard u stupid????

Exactly

David _ agreed

The shill interviewer didn't want to hear that. Or us to hear it.

David _ Seriously. Fuck this interviewer..

That couldve been a good quote... :(

But it’s still a totally different story 😂😂😂 he just happened to be both

He's saying that because he's always been super competitive, so of course he'd want to be the best, in anything professional, you have to believe you're the best. However, it's all too objective and not a topic worth discussing. Who cares who's better, too many greats to enjoy

@@tomscott904 You can argue that Tal was as talented if not more (and was a creative artist unlike Fischer). But Fischer is definitely the best along with Kasparov (and Carlsen?)

Talent would just determine the amount of time and effort it took both players to achieve upmost mastery in chess and to achieve their peak form. In that respect, I would say that Paul Morphy was the most talented chess player who ever lived, as he was able to learn chess just by watching his family play it at home, and played chess as a favorite pass time. Still, at the age of 9, he was already the best player in town and later became unbeatable while at the same time becoming a lawyer. So, without teams of top grand masters to help him achieve his best form, without thousands of books or computer programs at his disposal, without concentrating 100% on chess, Morphy reached an incredible and never before seen level at chess. Just unimaginable feat!

@@theUroshman Fischer agreed. He called Morphy the greatest of all the geniuses.

+Sound & VIsion thanks for that

+Sound & VIsion Fransua Andre Danikan Philidor, the famous composer at that time.

+Sound & VIsion Fransua Andre Danikan Philidor, the famous composer at that time.

+bach5861 I actually have three complete Philidor operas in my gigantic music collection. He was a pretty damned fine composer, based on these three operas, in my opinion.

***** I hope that's a joke.

I KNOW!!! Fischer was making an excellent point, maybe if you shut the f*** up you'd get it and we'd all be enlightened! Really want to punch that guy...

nicoricolime Right? He's Bobby Fischer and you're a journalist STFU

No, he WAS Bobby Fischer, here he's a senile old man talking shit and making everyone roll their eyes. The interviewer is trying his best to right the plane and keep things intelligent and on track.

J Thompson, No, you're just a disrespectful piece of shit.

@@JT-ic9mp You dumb nut pot.

That is my question exactly.

because at that time in his life Fischer would be asked one question, and then he would switch over to a different topic, ranting on about jews, conpiracy's, how the US is out to get him etc. essentially paranoid rantings and obsessions that had been on his mind and that he had been obsessing about for the past 30-40 years in his isolation. sadly, Fischer never had a normal childhood or any kind of stability or normal relation to the rest of the world that most people do. it's totally normal that some people have opinions and views that are outside of the norm, but difference between people like that and somebody like Fischer is that he absolutely could not contain this ideas and views about the world in relations to other people. he would just rant and rant and rant if you let him. because essentially, he was simply not socialized like other kids as a child, and he never got any sort of support, help or proper treatment for his mental illness. fuck, stop glorifying him as some kind of hero or christ-like figure outside of chess. the man was ill, and probably suffered for most of his life, including his childhood.

Interviewers ask questions they want there own preconceived answers to and try to force people to basically say the answers they want to hear. More or less trying to lead their interviewers into saying things believed by the interviewer

Because it sells papers and magazines and generates clicks by getting a quote for a headline - “Bobby Fisher still thinks he is the best player in the world”

Because most interviewers are shallow little people who want to hear their voices on a recording.

After move 6 there are already 9 million possible chess games. If you’re able to remember that much you deserve to be a master.

@@bubbamike4743 I play no chess. But as I understand it there are common openings. Memorizing the main lines of the first 6 moves seems like something that any amateur would pick up with time. The idea of "9 million" moves has nothing to do with it because most everyone picks from a short list. That's akin to an advertisement I read for a restaurant that said they had "70 trillion combinations of orders." It took a few google searches, a calculator and 5 minutes to figure out it had 46 ingredients. However, how many people order a burrito with just a tortilla and cilantro? Most people will get a tortilla, a protein, some common vegetables, a salsa etc. So among the 70 trillion combinations, you only ever see variations on a theme. If you're able to memorize that you deserve to be a master. They memorize the most common burrito at the shop. Burrito supreme, minus the sour cream.

I don’t think an average player would know 30 moves of theory in any line of any opening. If you put that much time and effort into your opening prep you are probably already IM or GM material, and these folks have talent and creativity to spare. Unless you are referring to an “average” GM, which is nothing like an average player...

Bubba Mike I know when there is a certain hype in opening theory. You can start a game with d4 online and play against the same opening line on 33% of your games. The same gambit line all over again even if there are millions of possible possibilities at the 6th move. It was a gambit line with b5 on third move. Can’t remember the name as black. You sacrifice a pawn on b5 and afterwards your opponent plays a6 with a lot of pressure till very late.

@@michaelg4346 brilliant

Why not combine the two approaches? Studying past games played by the very best is very instructional alongside studying one's own games. Learning from others makes achieving a goal easier -- doesn't make you less of a person walking through a door that someone else has opened for you...

So don't think and play yourself. Copy others. It's what Fischer hated and why he left the game.

@@larrylindgren9484 Fischer got to the top by studying the games of previous players just like everyone else. It is the same in all competitive sports. If you go for tennis coaching, they don't tell you to freestyle and do whatever you like - they show you the proper grip, the proper footwork, how to serve.... You play the game by learning the techniques that are already known to work. Chess is no different.

@@larrylindgren9484 Well said. The problem in chess is that it has become so complex and competitive that you can't succeed being just "creative" and ignoring the study and memorization of tactics. Thus, it is a game which rewards memory over creative thought.

@@srkucrickk chess is for robots now. Not actually thinking. Just he moves this piece and I move this one because everyone else moved it that way. It's just sad.

We've had a lot of people over 2785 since then, including Kasparov and Carlsen of course. A rating only goes so far either way. In terms of pure raw talent I'd personally go with Capablanca, who never really studied chess, and has a 73.5% lifetime win rate with 51 losses in database

​@@grizzlybare3771 under the backdrop of the cold war against the indomitable soviet machine, with no coaches, no advisers, nothing he didn't just defeat club players, he demolished grandmasters to such an extent that hasn't been seen before or since..his rating was 130 points above the next highest..carlsen has 23 within 130 of him..let that sink in.. for Fischer and his rating of 2785, the next closest was 2655...if carlsen is 2800, there are 23 players at 2670 and above.. that's the level of dominance Fischer demonstrated..the award in his name has never been given.. And I believe there are Fischer ratings, then there is everyone else including magnus and kasparov..Fischer would have a rating that doesn't exist, 3300 or something..his level of chess brilliance cannot be overstated

@David Pumpkin Children's events have always been ugly. Trust me, I had the unique experience of trying to make it in a stupid sport with a mother who did some pageants as a kid. It was getting ugly for me and she used to just shrug them off as pageantry parents. These other kids parents were crazy, and I used to kick their ass anyway. lol We didn't operate like them. I was the sole drive and madness like Fischer, and she was the spectator who didn't get in the way. No cheering, rooting, strategy or anything. When the tournaments were over, we went out to dinner and had fun. Win or lose, it was going to be worth our while. She used to relate to the Russian gymnast who would push there coaches away. Being half slavic, it was probably genetic. Hahaha.

Enter Mayor He is just saying that the game doesn't have that much value in itself, which it doesn't. Whats the value in any activity or hobby, in essence they're pointless. Doesn't mean the practise of learning the game is wasted time spent in my opinion. A lot of the things you learn could help you in life or just supply you with the confidence and happyness to exist. Also he grew up with a mother who didn't seem to value chess that much (according to the documentary about him), much of his country didn't care that much for chess of course that impression rubs of on you. He got the question "whats next" in an interveiw and he answered that he hasn't played enough chess, aknowledging that he thinks and knows there is more to the world but that he wasn't going to engage in it yet. I'm guessing the feeling that he was wasting his time that was surrounding the man caught up with him eventually. I think it's a shame that he couldn't acheive more outside of chess also if that what he wanted.

I’m certainly not erudite, and I like it a lot. I’m Exhibit A! :-D

@@esscate at least chess in its standard form? i mean chess960 aka fischer random chess?

@@esscate what is your opinion of 'Chess960: The winner is the more agile mind. Chess: The winner is the biggest nerd.' - comment by redditor MingusMingusMingu ?

When he talks about chess he's brilliant, anything apart from chess and you'll see why he's considered crazy.

Because he spoke the truth about ones who cannot be criticized

@@asmallpers0n his games and chess notes were stolen/confiscated by juice, but of cause not all of them, but only top layer juice

Indeed !

Bruh this guy was celebrating 9/11 so you still think he didn’t went insane?

yeah its just a memory test

But isn't everything like that now? Hell even basketball is like this to an extent.

Micah Barbee thank you. I didn't know this.

Micah Barbee Then the problem is with chess being an easy game to play. Besides, it's not like human tournaments have disappeared.

Well Hong Khuu, the word "easy" is very subjective, not all people view chess as "easy". For instance, a game of chess against a lower rated opponent may promise a higher chance of Victory but, that doesn't necessarily mean that opponent is "easy" or the chess of that game.

Haha😂

Abiogenesis fails

Actually he played e4

@@JRibsthe schizo variation?

@@Frankcohle indeed

Except for all the stuff he said about Jews, black people, and women, that shit was batshit

@@justinbieber8028 yes, 😂 in that moments he was just a stupid man, better said, a poor man with a poor childhood for sure

@@justinbieber8028 What's wrong hating jews that dont want to adapt to the country they imigrated to? We would be beaten to death if we came to their countries behaving like that

@neverforget1971 yes it was.

​@@justinbieber8028the stuff he said about jews is effing true He is a jew himself

It's funny that you would call him eccentric. There was a quote where he said he hated being called "eccentric" or "weird"

he was all round batshit crazy

I guess you never heard Fischer talk about Jewish people. The man went nuts.

fischer was jewish.....maybe you need educate yourself to fischers life...see why he said what he said....

I like that

Yeah, and not just Fischer. It seems like half the questions ever asked by chess journalists amount to "Who is the best player ever?" or "Who is the better of this or that player"?

Greg Torosyan I know basically nothing about chess, but when a man is considered by many to be the greatest chess player ever, it's unlikely that journalists are going to want to talk to him about the weather.

they just darent mention his antisemitism now that would have got a crazy reaction

Well I assume talking about politics with Fischer would be a bit awkward.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand how so?

Yes but it can get very one sided very quickly

It's clearly an improvement upon the game.

i wish more people played it, as a beginner chess player the only people i can find playing fischer random on lichess are much more experienced players so i have to play the standard chess basically

It leads to unique and often exciting middlegame positions. Some starting positions are more flexible than others in terms of natural development.

You need the fundamentals and the rudiments of chess BEFORE playing such a random game.

Not too crazy lol

Jeremy Bader If he just dropped the word 'jew' and turned it to 'pathological bad people who then project their own pathology onto the rest of society' he would not be seen as crazy at all. Look at Hitler, Stalin, and any of the crazy leaders, look at the bankers and the politicians, they project their own pathology onto to everyone else and that is what causes problems. It isn't 'Jew' this and that. He was angry with them, but I think he saw things too. 'People are living in a dream world' in regards to chess, that is deep.

+El Duder He used the "Bishops" to knock "Rooks".

+Jeremy Bader When he speaks of chess, he remains of genius, but when he speaks of anything else which does not concern his professional feld, like every other genius, he is a nuttjob, easy as that, just because someone is a great chess player, that does not make him a mini god, who knows it all.

+Nat Brown That's one perception. Another is that he is a person of extremely high intelligence, a person who thought differently than the social paradigm of his day, and that his chess skill was merely a byproduct of that. If you believe the reality of history is 100% as you learned it in the books, then maybe you're closer to nutjob yourself than you think.

Chess for me is a search for a sucker that I can hustle. ...

The rhythmic contractions of a chic's pelvic floor muscles in perfect unison with the sweet squeezing of my throbbing dick... is the search for truth.

How so?

What does it mean though?

@@esscate he ever said in talkshow that 'in Chess, it's just you and your opponent at the board and you're (also ur opponent) trying to prove something (such as my strategy is better, i'm smarter, etc)'. That's why he said 'search for truth'.

I would have thought Bobby would have said that about Mikhail

Meh... Only good for a single championship cycle....

I think Fisher lost all four games to Tal sometime around 1962 and swore he would never lose to Tsl again & he never did. That probably impressed Tal.

@@kasparov937 fitting your name is Kasparov...

@@kasparov937 Shut up idiot

dont roast them to hard

Yea I'm sure his antisemitism isn't crazy either right...

@@walterpay341 - idiot.

@@coffeyjjj clever retort

Shut up

Perhaps - but paradoxically, deep is shallow. Depth worships itself; truth is a fart in the face of God

That doesn’t mean anything.

i would say kasparov is the most successful, nut he was only +2 against karpov, fischer win 20 in a row against top class players, nut kasparov was world champion for 15 year's so he is probably the most successful.

+Jake Bishop Kasparov only Genius who beat chess program.Fischer couldn't

kasparov was the first ever world champ to loss to a chess computer, chess computers sucked when fischer was alive, we dont know what would have happend if he had played

100% lose..Fischer at his peak was 2785..Kasparov was 2851

+Arash Akrami Have you heard about ELO inflation? Elo Marks are intertemporally incomparable

He just wanted to avoid the ''interviewers'' question quickly as possible. If he would've said Morphy, then the interviewer would've most likely said ''why him?'' He probably thinks Morphy is the greatest.

and that's exactly the kind of crap fischer feels like ruined chess is memorizing all the games from the players before. Even if he did it himself. Its all good. most of us just play for fun. And those sick enough to be addicted and make it their entire life well I hope it satisfies them more so then the depth of life they could have had. I would never want to be a bobby fischer. Rather just enjoy living life.

Jesse Bowman I hope you realize how incredibly rude it is to call pretty much all master-level chess players "sick and addicted". Not everyone hates studying chess. In fact, some like it a lot. Some of those people who like it a lot make it their profession. People like Carlsen and many other chess super-GMs show us very clearly that you don't need to be a "sick addict" to be a professional chess player.

rude or not ... its the truth :-p ... but no worries ... addiction is usually a key ingredient in greatness. Otherwise nobody would try so hard to perfect their craft or hobby of interest. But yes they are all sick in the head just like Bobby Fischer was. If you don't have perfectionist tendencies that border on insanity then you will never attempt to be the best at anything.

Jesse Bowman When you use terms like "sick in the head" you are not advocating the truth when you are referring to healthy sportsmen like many of the great chess players out there. If you want to make such audacious statements, you better support it by elaborating on how healthy individuals like Carlsen (just to name the current #1) are mentally ill according to you. Studying chess professionally is not intrinsically pathological. If you wish to suggest its players are all playing it because of some underlying pathology, you'll have to prove it rather than just state it.

The proof is in the cards. Addiction is an illness and seeking perfection is a form of insanity. There are plenty of studies to prove such things. You are simply upset that you and all your greatest chess minds are placed in a category that is categorized as a mental illness. You probably believe that the term normal is a useful way of expressing any human that lacks a mental or physical illness but in truth most humans have one or many mental illnesses and or physical disabilities. Normal in and of itself is a false idea. Normal is simply mental illness of a lessor degree. The various forms of nature that are beneficial to humans in small doses that become life altering in the negative sense when they exist in their extreme conditions. To be good at something is "normal." To be great at something usually takes more and ends up crippling ones life much like a functioning alcoholic that ceases to function after 50 years of poisoning their body and mind. Often seeking perfection in one area of ones life or in one interest leads to inability to function socially with others and the creation of distorted realities within ones life. Many of your brightest humans lack the ability to balance a check book, pay their own bills, or be social on any "normal' level with other humans.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies. - Ron Paul

@@neonnaughtsie4726 George Orwell actually

And both American champions!

Fischer was the reincarnation of Morphy

Fischer was Jewish.

rob sol Which is why it's even more stupid that he hated Jews.

No he practiced no Judaism that I know of. But are you a Jew by faith or birth? Because I suspect that he like many others including most jews if they even know what a jew is themselves, tend to think it has at least as much if not more to do with a practiced belief system than genetics or birthright.

Judge not lest ye be judged accordingly, right? But if we're judging what or who is stupid, let me see, he had an IQ over 180 How about you, lol.

John Greystoke "are you a Jew by faith or birth?" Either. You can be a Jew by being of Jewish descent or by converting to the religion. Bobby's parents were Jewish. "But if we're judging what or who is stupid, let me see, he had an IQ over 180 How about you, lol" I didn't call Fischer stupid, I said it's stupid that he hated Jews. Let's face it, smart people can be stupid at times, or do stupid things. That's separate from general intelligence.

fischer took whatever route gave him the best chance of a win, most players arent willing to do that. Just look at how carlsen plays he does nothng of the kind

what are you talking about? objectively carlsen is the most accurate chess player in history... he is also known for pushing for the win when he isnt supposed to, just look at the wcchampionship

He was reading a lot Soviet Union magazines, and now we know why! :) Good comment.

Fischer himself tried to refute the kings gambit, he studied the whole opening for a really long time, so saying that he doesn't like this opening prep stuff is a bit hypocritical of him.

+GDSFish To say you don't like something yet partake in it doesn't mean its hypocrisy?I dont like going to work but I do, am I a hypocrite? It would be hypocritical if he had said he doesn't like any opening theory yet loves the kings gambit. He says himself in this interview, he was disillusioned with chess at the time and played because of ambition regardless of its boring nature or whatever.

We have nearly same profile pic 😄

My opinion: 0:38 doesn't want to delve into old chess and wants to go back to Fischer random. Very humble in answering the question as to whether or not e is the best player that ever was. But at the same time very instructive in changing the question from best player to most talented player 2:12 doesn't want to delve into old chess when asked about garry Kasparov. Very polite in refraining from criticising Kasparov.

After Fischer reached absolute succes, by becoming the World Champion, there was really nothing for him waiting at the end. And then he searched for God, he had found none. So began the second half of his life, in which he could never climb out of the deep emotional hole, left by his outstanding achievement. I understand this man very well, as I've went through the exact same thing, but somehow managed to come out of it.

I'd like to see him on Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan: Have you ever played chess on DMT?

He's too paranoid to make a podcast.

Short has said that that definitely was not Fischer

Fisher random in the end just multiplies opening theory by a thousand. Capablanca chess is better, as it extends the number of possibilities in the tree, and the size of the board, while still having the action-at-a-distance character of chess.

likebox2 Fischerandom preserves the rules, that's the point. Capablanca chess is a different game altogether, because of completely new dynamics between the pieces. Remember that the regular chess rules have been perfected over the time of more than half a millenium. Adding new pieces and squares would throw most of that out the window, and with fixed starting positions it wouldn't remove opening theory either.

You need to try Capablanca chess--- the only defect in Capablanca's original design is the unprotected pawn in the opening, which makes opening theory extremely constrained (you keep attacking and defending this one pawn in nearly all the reasonable openings). This is fixed in "Capablanca random" or Gothic Chess, which produces better play. I play Gothic/Capablanca against my computer using the engine "FairyMax" (which is a very simple engine computationally, but it's pretty good at ordinary chess, maybe around 2200, because the tactical depth is good today-- and like any computer it's a tactical and defensive monster). FairyMax makes elementary blunders in Capablanca chess due to the engine's ignorance about files against the king, and due to the long-term issues in the game that are less prominent in ordinary chess. I beat it regularly at Capablanca chess, even though the engine beats me at normal chess (sometimes I beat it at ordinary chess, very very rarely, and usually I lose right in the opening due to opening blunders which are avoided due to the much longer set-up time for Capablanca openings before serious conflict). I believe this means that there is a real human advantage in Capablanca chess as compared to engines, just because of the greatly expanded move tree, 3 strong peices, knights are worth significantly less, bishops worth more, and the knight-rook is basically a second queen, and can't be traded for a knight-bishop, even though knight-bishop can mate by itself. This makes brute force search much less effective, and the game is more positional, with tactical combinations coming at a roughly equal rate as in ordinary chess, except the midgame appears after more moves, and the pawn structure tends to be more closed.

You can play Capablanca/Gothic against FairyMax by installing xboard and FairyMax, give it a try, it's really well designed, as good as ordinary chess, really. Chess did develop over centuries, but people are smarter today, and have computers to evaluate games, so they are at least hundred times better at making good balanced games.

Players learned pattern recognition way before chess engines became a thing.

Bobby Fischer: "Thank you for playing my game"

The only tragedy I see is that he got distracted into other areas where he clearly had no competence, notably his opinions about Jews. He was overcome with hate. He should have stuck to chess.

@@GH-oi2jf nope he is infact right

lol...I love your last sentence - "Bobby doesn't put up with bullshit"...I couldn't agree more :)

Car talk fan?

+alterdestiny I find it humorous that Magnus has gone on record stating he would beat both Fischer and Tal. He would shit his pants across the board from either of them.

+gasparifreak Truth. He said so many times, that they only ever needed him during that Cold War era. I just wonder if maybe he was just unable to distinguish from judaism and zionism. Fischer has to be one of the most misunderstood people in history...

I can. Alex Jones.

i've thought that for many years. there's only so many moves on an 8x8.

Pretentious sentence. Chess is a game, won by people who have a great memory or bots. Science is the search for truth.

@@jackcarpenters3759 What's interesting is what he says just after that.

@@jackcarpenters3759 Philosophy is the search for truth, science is it's retarded little brother.

@@jackcarpenters3759 This is scientism at its finest, folks. He's referring to the improbability of ever solving the game and having to test your theories over the board. You're trying to prove to your opponent that you have the truth and and that he is incorrect. This happens a lot in chess and this way of explaining the game is extremely common.

@@jackcarpenters3759 "I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist." -Bobby Fischer BTW his Dad WAS a Scientist.

MDFlight I think that's a stereotype that has some truth to it but when I look at today's tournaments, I still see a lot of exciting chess. Magnus Carlsen, the current world champion, actually is known for his lazy opening preparation (lazy in comparison with people like Anand or Kramnik), he simply wants to reach a playable position where he can outplay his opponents in the middle- or endgame. He often plays weird or inferior moves in the opening to get out of book or to confuse his opponents. You're probably right in the long run, but right now, chess is still exciting.

+MDFlight Good point. Blitz chess is really fun to watch. Daniel Rensch playing bullet chess is downright hilarious at times.

They'd all fall to hikaru

@@marcfox1088 Nah, Morphy beats Hikaru...well I'm rooting for Paul Morphy!