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      Home  >  Chess Improvement • Chess Puzzles • General News  >  It’s bad. The problem is serious with Fischer

      It’s bad. The problem is serious with Fischer

      Bobby Fischer, Chess Today, Health, Iceland, problem, Reykjavik


      I just read on Chess Today about Bobby being in serious health problem. He has been hospitalized in Reykjavik for several weeks already. Here is the link that was given by CT.

      Tras los pasos de Bobby Fischer… y sus fantasmas
      Por Ezequiel Fernández Moores
      Para LA NACION

      REYKJAVIK, Islandia.- Más que paranoico” y “distanciado de sus amigos islandeses”, Bobby Fischer está internado con “serios problemas físicos” en el hospital de Reykjavik, la ciudad que hace 35 años lo coronó campeón mundial de ajedrez.

      “Sí, el está aquí, pero para saber sobre su estado de salud tiene que hablar con la gente que lo acompaña”, me dice por teléfono una autoridad del Landspitalis, el hospital de la capital de Islandia.

      Pero “la gente que lo acompaña” ya no es mucha: su pareja, la japonesa Miyoko Watai, no atiende el teléfono, y el gran maestro Helgi Olafsson, uno de sus pocos amigos en Islandia, me responde por correo electrónico: “Jamás hable públicamente sobre Bobby Fischer desde el otoño de 2005”.

      Tampoco habla Gudmundur Thorarinsson, presidente de la Federación Islandesa de Ajedrez cuando Fischer derrotó a Boris Spassky y rompió con la hegemonía soviética en el ajedrez mundial. El célebre duelo de 1972 en Reykjavik fue uno de los capítulos más notables del deporte en los años calientes de la Guerra Fría.

      Thorarinsson, miembro del Comité de Ayuda a Fischer, me sugiere hablar con Einar Einarsson, director del Comité. “En Islandia -se limita a responderme Einarsson- la enfermedad es asunto privado y el Comité no dirá nada sin el consentimiento de la persona involucrada.”

      También en la Argentina -le aclaro a Einarsson- la enfermedad es un asunto privado, pero no es honesto contar cómo vive hoy Fischer en Islandia ignorando que el hombre que revolucionó el ajedrez mundial parece estar con su salud empeorada e internado desde hace varias semanas en el hospital.

      “Está mal, el problema es serio”, me asegura uno de sus vecinos en una recorrida que hice por el barrio de Fischer. Nadie quiere decir su nombre en el 101 Reykjavik, como se conoce al Down Town de la capital más septentrional del mundo, poblada por cien mil habitantes y cuya vida de noches de invierno heladas y eternas refleja con cinismo la película homónima que protagonizó Victoria Abril en 2001.

      Here is the full article.

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      15 Comments

      1. Anonymous Reply
        November 24, 2007 at 2:28 am

        I hope he’s OK. Thanks for letting us know.

      2. Dopa Reply
        November 24, 2007 at 3:13 am

        can anyone tell us what kind of problems hes in.. coz not many can read spanish or what ever the lang was.

      3. Anthony (Los Angeles) Reply
        November 24, 2007 at 4:41 am

        My Spanish is weak. Can someone give the gist of this article?

      4. Anonymous Reply
        November 24, 2007 at 5:31 am

        They only said it was serious. They didn’t say what it was.

      5. Anonymous Reply
        November 24, 2007 at 5:32 am

        translation (in one line) :

        http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel
        fish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=es_en&url=ht
        tp%3A%2F%2Fwww.lanacion.com.ar%2Fdeportiva%2Fno
        ta.asp%3Fnota_id%3D963598%26origen%3Dranking
        Enviadas

      6. Andrew Ooi Reply
        November 24, 2007 at 7:11 am

        That’s very sad. Fischer is my hero and I’m sure he is for countless others too. Let’s just hope he recovers soon.

        I cut and paste the translated news using babel fish to

        http://news.gilachess.com

      7. egaion Reply
        November 24, 2007 at 9:57 am

        Thanks Susan and thanks Andrew Ooi.

        Praying for Bobby
        A. Weiler
        Kfar Saba, Israel.

      8. kuku man Reply
        November 24, 2007 at 10:17 am

        It is quite sad… that his physicakl health is bad!

        at least… he still has a great and true mental health….

        even with all these year with abuse and lie bythe evil international Sabetean and Zionist Jews(not ordinary Jews) did and sabotage him all these year…..

        what agreat and brave true Man…
        what a true Genius,,,,

        Not just like some Russianchess player wannabe politician…pretending to save the world(Russian…
        following and Licking the ideology of his master …
        those Bankers!

      9. Anonymous Reply
        November 24, 2007 at 12:23 pm

        Regarding that “translation” Man..that is Funky …..It’s pretty bad…I was starting to feel drunk just reading it. wow.haha.

      10. Andrew Ooi Reply
        November 24, 2007 at 12:42 pm

        You are right. Sorry about that. I cleaned up as much as I can for the first 2 paragraphs. I couldn’t make out much from the last paragraph so I left it as it is.

        Translated text

      11. Anonymous Reply
        November 24, 2007 at 1:41 pm

        sad that so many share his delusions

      12. Anonymous Reply
        November 24, 2007 at 1:59 pm

        if he dies he will play the grim reeper chess, and be allowed back. just in time to spew more hate.

      13. Anonymous Reply
        November 24, 2007 at 6:25 pm

        its not worth translating word by word because it dont say much it just babble on and on with the same but without saying anythin, cantinfleando..jeee

        basically fisher is ill, its more the physical than mental, hes been interned at hospital for several week, and downtown where he lives they reckon its serious;

        nobody wants or knows what is is, so its total hermit and that he is lonely only with a couple of gm and his couple, hope it works out for u and him specially. bye jb.

      14. Salad Shooter Reply
        November 24, 2007 at 10:18 pm

        Fischer has been ill for a very long time on serval different levels. He is such a human tragedy.

      15. MayanKing Reply
        November 25, 2007 at 6:03 am

        Basically it said he is ill in hospital for weeks but no one close to him will say anything more.

        Fischer is my chess hero and I grew up to see him become World Champion. I hope he may recover his health.

        When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
        Must give us pause. There’s the respect
        That makes calamity of so long life,
        For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
        Th’oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
        The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
        The insolence of office, and the spurns
        That patient merit of th’unworthy takes,
        When he himself might his quietus make
        With a bare bodkin?

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