Chess Art by J. Craig
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A chess art tribute to RJF by J. Craig
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Chess Art by J. Craig
I wish to thank Susan for the amount of space that she has devoted in her website to Bobby Fischer. It seems like she is one of the few who recognize the magnitude of his loss.
You know, I wanted to say that perhaps I was WRONG in many of my previous posts in which I was seemingly so unforgiving toward Fischer and his racism.
I have thought a lot about it and, though I don’t excuse his remarks, perhaps I was to hasty and harsh when, objectively, there was no reason to be.
I think Mr. Fischer might have been OK if he had been under psychiatric care and taken the proper medications. Yet, I begin to think….how good was the psychiatric community in the early 1960’s when he first began, as Bisguire states, to begin showing signs of paranoia? Treatment was not nearly as advanced and I can see why anyone would want to avoid it way back then.
I think I was wrong…and I am sorry for this.
Sometimes we all get so caught up in our own opinions we forget to look at other evidence. I think I did this.
No, I don’t appreciate his remarks about Jews and the 9/11 vicims, or America…but, he never actually physically hurt anyone.
Perhaps in the 1990’s treatment might have helped him some….I don’t know.
Regardless, words only hurt people if you allow them to…and, I should have been more stoic.
I never knew him. I have no idea what precise “mental illness” he had, if any. so, I have no emperical data to support my own statements.
To the fans on this blog, I apologize and I do think we, as a chess family, have lost a great mind.
Let history judge…it’s not my place to do so.
RIP GM Fischer. We will miss you.
Anonymous,
The events of 9/11 were very personal to you.
The world is better when we are able to forgive.
Radjabov recently caused a slight uproar with statements that were not in the spirit of Chess.
Chess is about peace. As some have said Fischer did not break the iron curtain but he brought East and West together.
So many lives could have been saved have we been able to forgive the events of 9/11.
I am glad that you can do what our government was unable to do forgive Fischer.
If Busch can forgive Scooter Libby and others, I hope he’ll do the same for Fischer posthumously.
J. Craig left out the post 9-11 RJF. Please revise.
The h8 square photo is from Fischer’s final few years in Iceland.