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Bobby Fischer FBI Files Released Under FOIA

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the screwed-up-genius dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Philidelphia Inquirer has a stroy detailing the results of a FOIA request for chess great Bobby Fischer." Turns out they thought the anti-semitic chess grandmaster(and his mother) was a soviet spy.

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  1. One question though... by vonsneerderhooten · · Score: 1, Funny

    What's a "stroy"?

    -D

    1. Re:One question though... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I dunno...does it have something to do with pere-'stroy'-ka?

      (winces)

    2. Re:One question though... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      that's spy stuff. if I told ya I'd have ta kill ya...

    3. Re:One question though... by t-10056 · · Score: 2, Funny

      "stoy" (noun) comes from russian (verb) "stroyit'" "to build"; in the context of "kommunsticheskiy stroy" "communist regime"

    4. Re:One question though... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      STROY! STROY! STROY! Stroy makes you strong! Strength crushes enemies! STROY!

  2. I hope they dont.. by johnraphone · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope they don't release my FBI file about me watching TV and on the computer all day.

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  3. So.. by Manes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have they finally confirmed that he's playing on the internet? :)

    1. Re:So.. by Kierthos · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, no... he's playing the entire Internet. And winning. Please get it right. :)

      Kierthos

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    2. Re:So.. by D+iz+a+n+k+Meister · · Score: 2, Funny

      And it's all part of a much larger scheme where the "Chess Master" is going to get back at the Gate manufacturers who wronged him, by stealing the money from the tolls at the Gates.

      See you later Space Cowboy. . .

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  4. Searching for Bobby Fischer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think Laurence Fishburn needs to pull the non-existant spoon out of the ass of the FBI

  5. Re:man o man by ekent82 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does it make me stupid, or slow? I hardly doubt it. Erm, so you have a low self-image or something?

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  6. Re:man o man by rEWDBOi · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Newton for instance (probably) died a virgin.
    What a great idol for the /. masses. ;)

  7. A few selected Quotes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Lots of the time I'm traveling around. Europe, South America, Iceland. But when I'm home, I don't know, I don't do much. I get up at eleven o'clock maybe. I'll get dressed and all, look at some chess books, go downstairs and eat. I never cook my own meals. I don't believe in that stuff. I don't eat in luncheonettes or Automats either. I like a waiter to wait on me. Good restaurants. After I eat I usually call up some of my chess friends, go over and analyze a game or something. Maybe I'll go to a chess club. Then maybe I'll see a movie or something. There's really nothing for me to do. Maybe I'll study some chess book. -- Bobby Fischer

    Do you want to come with me to the boys' room, then we'll see who is Jewish? -- Bobby Fischer (on being reminded by a reporter that he was half Jewish)

    I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised. -- Bobby Fischer

    Being Jewish myself, I somehow didn't see the problem: who cares what a mentally ill (but strangely likable) individual says? If he didn't make some money at chess, I could see him becoming a street person, shaking his fists at cars as they passed by his corner of the block. Isn't it preferable to have him in a self-sufficient position rather than as a liability of the state? -- Jeremy Silman (on Fischer)

    Of course a great player like that has no weak spots. What a player like that does have are absolutely strong spots, so you surely don't want him to utilize his strengths, because then your chances decrease to zero. It's not surprising - chess being as complicated as it is - that Fischer had the greatest problems with positions, which were unclear in an unthematic way. When in effect everything just depended on accurate calculation. In those kinds of positions, he is still better than me of course, but the difference is not that great anymore, because it's just extremely difficult for both of us. The chance that he will make an error increases, whereas in a thematic or technical position he will just play perfectly from beginning to end and your chances of surviving are zero. -- Edmar Mednis

    First of all, I'll make a tour of the whole world, giving exhibitions. I'll charge unprecedented prices. I'll set new standards. I'll make them pay thousands. Then I'll come home on a luxury liner. First-class. I'll have a tuxedo made for me in England to wear to dinner. When I come home I'll write a couple chess books and start to reorganize the whole game. I'll have my own club. The Bobby Fischer ... uh, the Robert J. Fischer Chess Club. It'll be class. Tournaments in full dress. No bums in there. You're gonna have to be over eighteen to get in, unless like you have special permission because you have like special talent. It'll be in a part of the city that's still decent, like the Upper East Side. And I'll hold big international tournaments in my club with big cash prizes. And I'm going to kick all the millionaires out of chess unless they kick in more money. Then I'll buy a car so I don't have to take the subway any more. That subway makes me sick. It'll be a Mercedes-Benz. Better, a Rolls Royce, one of those fifty-thousand-dollar custom jobs, made to my own measure. Maybe I'll buy one of those jets they advertise for businessmen. And a yacht. Flynn had a yacht. Then I'll have some more suits made. I'd like to be one of the Ten Best-dressed Men. That would really be something. I read that Duke Snyder made the list. Then I'll build me a house. I don't know where but it won't be in Greenwich Village. They're all dirty, filthy animals down there. Maybe I'll build it in Hong Kong. Everybody who's been there says it's great. Art Linkletter said so on the radio. And they've got suits there, beauties, for only twenty dollars. Or maybe I'll build it in Beverly Hills. The people there are sort of square, but like the climate is nice and it's close to Vegas, Mexico, Hawaii, and those places. I got strong ideas about my house. I'm going to hire the best architect and have him build it in the shape of a rook. Yeah, that's for me. Class. Spiral staircases, parapets, everything. I want to live the rest of my life in a house built exactly like a rook. -- Bobby Fischer (on what he'd do when he won the world championship)

    What a wacko.

  8. Re:PC Attitude is Hypocritical by G.+W.+Bush+Junior · · Score: 2, Funny

    We should be able to mod posts down as "-1 Anti-Semitic".

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  9. Where is Philidelphia? by mumblestheclown · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it near Philadelphia?

  10. They've got a secret by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    " Before Bobby Fischer left for Russia in the summer of 1958, an agent posed as a college journalist to interview producers of the TV show I've Got a Secret. Bobby had been a guest on the show and won plane tickets to Russia. (Fischer's "secret?" He was U.S. chess champion. The panel was stumped.) "

    I'm stumped too. Stumped how a gameshow in America, in 1958, could give away air tickets to Russia?! What else did you win, bug detector so you could tell when the feds were watching?

  11. Wen Ho Li's "crime".... by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny
    Is now known in Asian-American communities as DWC:

    Downloading While Chinese.

  12. But they thought EVERYBODY was a Soviet spy by TerryAtWork · · Score: 4, Funny

    Except J Edger Hoover. They thought HE was straight...

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