Comments on: Searching for Bobby Fischer http://www.altsearchengines.com/2008/01/19/searching-for-bobby-fischer/ The most wonderful search engines you've never seen! Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:10:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tony Iovino http://www.altsearchengines.com/2008/01/19/searching-for-bobby-fischer/comment-page-1/#comment-36076 Tony Iovino Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:00:25 +0000 http://altsearchengines.com/2008/01/19/searching-for-bobby-fischer/#comment-36076 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. 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.

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