RP chess great in BBC-HBO documentary
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First Posted 13:46:00 10/07/2009
ASIA’S first Grandmaster Eugenio “Eugene” Torre is appearing in a documentary
being filmed by the BBC-HBO on the life of late Robert “Bobby” Fischer, one of the greatest chess player that ever pushed a pawn.
Matthew Justus, co-producer of the project, invited Torre to be in New York on the last week of November for the live interview.
Fischer died of renal failure in Iceland on January 17, 2008 and left some P140 million and gold deposits in the Landsbanki, one of the biggest banks in Iceland.
The BBC-HBO documentary will focus on the chess exploits of Fischer when he single-handedly shamed the Soviet Union by wresting the world title from Boris Spassky during their 1972 epic match in Reykjavik.
It will also feature their return match in the former Yugoslavia which earned a US Federal charge for Fischer resulting in his incarceration in a Japanese airport cell in 2007.
Torre will provide the Philippine connection in Fischer’s life starting with his early visits to the country in the early 70s to his romantic liaisons.
Source: http://sports.inquirer.net
May as well cash in now that the guy is dead. Wonder how Fischer would have reacted to this “sharing”
No Matter how interesting it is…Torre should shut up….Bobby would never have approved.
Just my opinion.
May as well cash in now that the guy is dead. Wonder how Fischer would have reacted to this “sharing”
No Matter how interesting it is…Torre should shut up….Bobby would never have approved.
Just my opinion.
He probably wouldn’t approve of you talking about him either, even to defend him, so please put a sock in it.
Florencio Campomanes, former president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), was Bobby Fischer’s original Filipino friend. They met in New York in the mid-1950s when Fischer was emerging as a chess phenom barely into his teens. “I doubt very much if he remembered the first time we met. He was very young, maybe 10 or 11.” Campomanes recalled. He said he was visiting the Brooklyn Chess Club when someone pointed to him a very promising but very nondescript boy named Robert Fischer.
When Fischer owed Campomanes $3,000, Campomanes said he had given up hope of collecting the money, but he got the surprise of his life when he received the payment a quarter of a century later. ‘‘It just goes to show that Bobby Fischer was a very honest man.” Campomanes said.
The Philippine Sportswriters Association of the Philippines has bestowed on Grandmaster Eugenio Torre the title Athlete of the Millennium. Take note: not for a year, not for a decade, neither is it for a century, it is for a thousand years!
Torre is big patzer.
‘‘It just goes to show that Bobby Fischer was a very honest man.”
It is generaly a dubios person with hidden agendas who says for another to be honest only when he receives money from him.
The six-foot Bobby Fischer used to consume large servings of Filipino food and adored sinigang when he lived in the Philippines for almost two years, said Marilyn Torre, wife of Eugene Torre. She said Fischer used to consume five balut in one sitting every day. Fischer asked Marilyn to bring him 50 such eggs when she went to Yugoslavia with her husband for Fischer’s rematch with Spassky. GM Eugene Torre served as Fischer’s second in the match, although spending more time shppping around than actually working.
Its Great News !
Now the Legend no longers walks among us, we might get some interestingly insights into his life especially the wildness years of 1972-92. Hope more of his friends come forward. No doubt he played more chess after 1972 than just the 92 match, it would be amazing to see some of these offhand games appear
I think the Campo writer meant, “when Campomanes owed Bobby Fischer $3,000.00 of his appearance fee, Bobby gave up hope of getting the money from Campo.”
Bobby knew how crooked Campo was since he was 12 years old.
It goes to show that Campo was a very crooked man.
Now you tell me where Campo gets his monies?
Ahh, the promo face of “where in the world is the 12.8 million pesos people’s money Campo?” resurfaces.
What really happened is that Campo upped his agent’s fee on Bobby Fischer’s appearance fees in the Philippines, so that of course Bobby did not agree, so it appeared he owed money.
But nice fiction story though, albeit hard to swallow 🙂