As you know, chess champion Bobby Fischer just passed away in his adopted country of Iceland. We have traveled to Iceland before, but I thought that I would revist our trip, as well as a few other aspects of Bobby Fischer’s legacy that, whatever his faults, I would like to share with you.
1. The Icelandic Alternative Search Engine – Zniff!
2. There was a musical about Bobby Fischer, “Chess (1984),” that featured a song that really takes me back, but I had never seen the video! You can see it on YouTube or go to Alt Search Engine Dabble.
2a. Go to video search engine dabble.
2b. Search for the artist Murray Head.
2c. Don’t click on the English result, go down to this one:
3. If you haven’t seen this movie, “Searching for Bobby Fischer,” you really should. In fact, go to Amazon and buy it! This gem is one of my all-time favorite movies.
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January 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Can’t say RIP for the man who was probably to chess what Ty Cobb was to baseball– for a time, the best there was.
But also a miserable, tortured human being.
We can’t help who impacts our lives, and when those that did pass on, I guess it’s reasonable to reflect.
I had a lot of fun that summer of ‘72; a lot of Americans did. It opened a new world to many of us, and it loomed large as a bloodless Cold War victory until it was surpassed by the “Miracle On Ice” in 1980.
I thought the tone of “Searching For Bobby Fischer”, a really nice movie, hit it about right– Fischer after 1972 was so despicable, but so clearly mentally ill, that it was just….sad.