Bobby Fischer for Beginners by Renzo Verwer

Author:Renzo Verwer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789056915575
Publisher: New in Chess
Published: 2014-07-07T04:00:00+00:00

In the years after this, news about Fischer was sparse. In 1987, for instance, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted a resolution that stated that Fischer was chess World Champion. In 1983, the Dutch Maecenas Joop van Oosterom put up a million dollars for a match between Fischer and Timman. There were negotiations, but the result was predictable: no match.

In 1988 Fischer registered a patent for a new type of digital chess clock. His clock offered the possibility to add time after every move, which would exclude terrible time-trouble situations. A player would always have at least a few seconds to make a move.

The Fischer Clock soon became commonly used at top level. However, Fischer’s wish to avoid time-trouble did not come true: in many tournaments, time – for example, thirty seconds – is only added after each move in the end phase of the game, and as a result chess players are now often in permanent time-trouble after forty moves!

In the 1980s stories cropped up that Fischer was afraid of being poisoned by the communists, that he took medicine made from herbs, and that he had had the fillings removed from his teeth because he was afraid of being monitored. In those days Fischer made many anti-Semitic statements, he denied the Holocaust and requested that the authors of the Encyclopaedia Judaica remove his name from their list of prominent Jews. Although at least one of his parents, his mother, was then known to be Jewish, his request was granted.

Despite – or perhaps: thanks to – the stories about his insanity, Fischer remained popular. There were references to him in the famous musical Chess (Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Tim Rice, 1986), in the book Searching for Bobby Fischer (Fred Waitzkin, 1988) and in the movie of the same name (directed by Steven Zaillian, 1993). And when in 1999 Chess Informant held a vote on the best chess player of the twentieth century amongst its readers, the outcome was: 1 Robert James Fischer, 2 Garry Kasparov, 3 Alexander Alekhine.

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