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| skipwallace555 4/18/2005 08:17:53 [ report this post ] |
 Subject: Bobby Fischer is Checkmated.Message: There was a story on ESPN this morning recounting Fischer's life and current status and it was produced by Jeremy Schapp, the son of Dick Schapp who tried to be a father figure to Bobby when he was 12 years old as well as documenting his rise to chess lore. Much later, Dick Scapp apparently wrote that Fischer " did not have a sane bone in his body". Well, in this news conference, after rambling on about his disgusting views about Jews and the Holocoust and 9/11 he singled out Jeremy Schapp and said his father was a Jewish snake for writing about his not having any sane bones. Jeremy Schapp took a moment and reflected and the said to Fischer, "there is nothing you said here today that would prove my Father wrong." Fischer's jaw dropped and there was dead silence for a long time and the interview ended. Checkmate!!!!! |
| schnarre 4/21/2005 13:52:54 [ report this post ] | Message: |
| alberlie 4/21/2005 14:04:16 [ report this post ] | that's what Susan Polgar thinks of the subject: Message: However, I must sadly take exception to the story about Bobby Fischer. In my opinion, Jeremy went to Iceland to provoke and confront Bobby. That was also the opinion of many people I spoke to. The entire show was about Fischer's attitude toward Jews, the big bad USA, Israel and about the fallout between his dad Dick Schaap and Bobby. It is very easy to provoke Bobby, and Jeremy knew how to do it." exerpt from -> www.chessbase.com |
| honololou 4/21/2005 15:35:06 [ report this post ] | and what is wrong� Message: provocative statements as RJF should be made to answer for them. Schaap was simply doing his job as a journalist. |
| alberlie 4/22/2005 02:09:40 [ report this post ] | the Point... Message: |
| soikins 4/22/2005 04:42:22 [ report this post ] | I disagree Message: As far as I know, TV people are not stupid, so let's move to the other explanations. If TV people don't know about these great stories, then it's Polgars (and her PR specialists) own fault - she didn't invite TV to the Super Nationals, she didn't tell the press that Team USA won silver at Olympiad and that Polgar won gold. She didn't tell TV about her match against Karpov. Or did she? Therefore we have 2 possible answers - either Polgar has to blame herself or the hypothesis that TV people don't know about hte events is not valid. So we turn to the third possible explanation. The stories are not interesting. Fischer is interesting because he is a legend, he is american and his behavior is shocking. That attracts people. Polgar is none of the above (maybe a legend in chess circles, but not to a wider audience) therefore she is not interesting. So I guess that settles it. No reason worry about the fact that grass is green or the sky is blue. It's just the way it is. Fisher is interesting, Polgar is not. |
| bucklehead 4/22/2005 05:40:19 [ report this post ] | You hit the nail on the head Message: I also thought Polgar's pro-Fischer bias showed through. As I understand, he lived in Hungary for a while and spent a lot of time with the Polgar family. If she's close to him, I see where she might feel that he was being "provoked" by the Schaap interview; but having seen the tape, it's clear to me that Schaap (who also has a family connection to Bobby) went to Iceland to see whether the things he'd heard about the man were really true. And, oh yeah, they were. I'm surprised Schaap maintained his composure for as long as he did. The one part of Polgar's piece that rang true, however, was its sense that the American media's interest in female athletes is limited to those participating in mass-market sports. Again, this makes a good story; but is Annika Sorenstam's participation at the PGA level--and performing badly--really a better story than Judit Polgar being ranked #9 in the world and refusing to play in "womens" events? When my five-year-old daughter goes shopping for sporting role models, I'm going to make darn sure Judit's is the story she hears most. |
| tnaptguy 4/27/2005 21:48:10 [ report this post ] | Sad situation Message: I have listened to the Live Broadcasts of Bobby on the Phillipino radio station and I'm saddened, because I hear in him something terribly familiar. My father was diagnosed with Skitzophrenea when I was about 8 yrs old. It is a progressive disease. It is also associated with high IQ's. I hear similar paranoid statements from Bobby now as I did my father then. He was able to hide symptoms for years, as to not attract attention to himself. But, in the long run camouflageing the inevidible became impossible. When I heard of Bobby's raging on of Jews and America it saddened me. I felt like I had lost another role model. I was also disturbed somewhat during the movie "Beautiful Mind". I cannot describe the feeling other than being saddened to watch someone with so much to offer lose everything including the respect of his most loyal admirers?????? Selfishly, I feel cheated by his illness. |
| ccmcacollister 4/28/2005 06:59:03 [ report this post ] | tnaptquy ... I know what you mean Message: And yet for all the bluster and opinionation, has he actually committed any act that has directly harmed another person? It seems to me that the media is using him whenever they need a short of a famous person giving a kneejerk reaction to stir things up a bit. For years no one could even find the man. Having been found, it seems he cant be left alone. |
| hamis 4/28/2005 08:47:28 [ report this post ] | Bobby Fishcher, the chess player...... Message: |
| schnarre 4/28/2005 13:41:44 [ report this post ] | Both ring true... Message: |
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