Bobby Fischer Is Dead At 64

A number of readers wrote in to make sure we know that former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he had lived since 2005. No cause of death was given.

Comments

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[Anonymous Coward]

he was a faggot.

Checkmate?

[hbean]

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Re:Why such hate?

[canuck57]

While everything you say is true, he was still a damn good chess player and good enough to win for Americans a chess championship. So what if he was neurotic. Are we all not neurotic to some degree?

why should we care?

[circletimessquare]

the guy was a raving hatefilled a**hole of the highest order

we're not talking alternative politics here folks, we're talking about venom and spite and bigotry

we shouldn't mourn his passing, and he really shouldn't be slashdot frontpage material

Nintendo?

[Bozzio]

Did anyone else see this under "Games," read "64" and automatically assume it was Nintendo related?

Yes, I know I'm pissing my Karma away posting this.

RIP

[Sepiraph]

Not that I agree with some of his rather eccentric remarks, but Mr. Fischer is definitely an interesting person. Although in this new century, with the dominance of AI it is hard to see any human champion beating the computer.

Re:Why such hate?

[Cyberax]

It's curious, but Kasparov seems to be the exact Russian counterpart of Fisher.

They even have close political views!

AIDS

[Anonymous Coward]

nt

Re:Why such hate?

[EddyPearson]

"So what if he could play a stupid game? It's just a nerdy version of sport hero worship."

You sir, are a fucking idiot.

I neither play chess, nor worship sports heros. However to compare one to the other shows true ignorance on your part, yet you feel the need to broadcast it on possibly the most discerning and judgemental backstreet of the Web, Slashdot.

You got balls, sir.

Re:Why such hate?

[billcopc]

(extends neck)

I certainly don't agree with the jew-bashing, but as a Canadian (and a megalomaniacal psychopath), I too was relatively pleased the day the towers fell. That very morning, I thought "it's about time someone made the US Government their bitch". I foolishly hoped for humility, that someone at the white house would stop and think "We've been pissing the world off for far too long, and this is the price we pay for a century of antisocial behavior". Instead what happened was "Goddamnit I hate these arabs, Me & My Daddy are gonna kill em all!".

Despite the idiocy of the Bush administration, I still think, for all the lives lost that day and in the ensuing cockfight, there is some good to come out of it, with a lot more on the way. It divided people, forced them to think about what had been done and step outside of their comfort bubble. Bobby Fischer was a wacko for hating Judaism and its followers, but I think he was right in saying the world trade center was a welcome tragedy.

Ding-Dong, the Twit is Dead

[One Childish N00b]

The sports news pages on both sides of the Atlantic and numerous spots in between have been eulogising chess 'genius' Bobby Fischer, who dropped dead earlier today of kidney failure. The famous grandmaster who defeated the Soviet Unions finest Chess minds is dead, and countless column inches have been dedicated to his achievements and his passing. What is reduced to a throwaway line, or even glossed over entirely, are his ludicrous, hateful political views which he was only too happy to spout whenever interviewed. His belief that he was the victim of an international Jewish conspiracy against him would be laughable were it not for his sincere desire for hundreds of thousands of "dirty, hook-nosed" Jews to be executed, all synagogues to be forcefully closed, and his deeply held and widely spoken denial of Ha-Shoah, the holocaust of the Jews.

So a bigoted idiot who was once quite good at moving little pieces of wood around a board is dead. Good. Ironically, it's only my convictions keeping me from wishing he went slowly and painfully. Good riddance you rediculous anti-semite.