why did bobby Fischer quit chess?
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it seems strange to me
i think the real question is why not
It was chess who quit Bobby Fischer
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I think cause he went a bit nuts...
Ran away from the game really.
Was too prideful to face the great Karpov. He knew Karpov would demolish him, it was easier to just retire, and have people speculate how he was the "best ever".
He quit to ensure that he would forever remain an enigmatic genius, to be discussed ad nauseum in the forums of chess websites.
I assumed the title meant why did Fischer stop competing against anyone after winning WC. No tournaments, nothing.
He was fed up with FIDE. If his demands were met, he would've definitely played.
His basic problem was paranoia and it got worse as he got older.....he claimed things like: the audience was too close, the lights were too bright, his chair was bugged, the Jews were out to get him (even though he was part Jewish).....a real nut case, but great at chess.....until he quit due to his mental illness.
"personal problems and its inherent hate for loosing"
BF never liked the game. It was always about his inferiority complex. Thought he could prove he was better and in the end he realized he was just another "loser". He quit which is typical of people suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.
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If uscftigerprowl is not banned for this glorification of AH, you've got serious problems.
uscftigerprowl wrote:
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Esteemed chessmate uscftigerprowl; Politic debates are prohibited according Chess.com's forum basic rules. Please, edit your message.
Thank you very much.
Heil chess.com rules!!!
I pasted the post, as he might be inclined to delete. If this is not grounds for an instant ban, you guys need a serious waking up.
[removed for being inappropriate, just like above -- VP]
TY mod. I only posted to save the offensive post in case the offender removed the original. He has a habit of posting as such in the name of "free speech" but as demonstrated he is clueless regarding it's meaning. Thanks again.
My post #26 is a copy of the image uscftigerprowl posted. It did not copy in my original copy of his quote so I "saved the image as" and added.
By the way Benjamin Netanyahu is a very smart dude....i.q.=180, 7th in the world by some accounts:
http://gidy.com/who-are-they-10-people-with-the-highest-iqs-in-the-world/?singlepage=1
When chess is your entire life, becoming champion is the dead end. Was he kind of Asperger?
I think some people are tooo liberal and sensitive! PC is out of control.
For those of you who are saying bobby fischer was afraid of karpov, you know nothing he was not just a chess genius He is just a genius who happens to play chess!!
