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07-16-2004, 08:53 AM
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The New Number 2
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Bobby Fischer arrested.....
....in Japan.
BBC link. I was always a big fan - one of the greatest players ever imo although Go is more my game than chess. Knew he had disappeared but didn't realise there was a warrant out. Recently there were rumours that he was playing several (all time classic) games on the net under an alias. No-one knew for sure it was him but it was someone with a very similar style. Sad really. Guess he just couldn't handle it.
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07-16-2004, 09:36 AM
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How pathetic, a man arresteed for playing a game of chess 10 years ago!
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07-16-2004, 11:19 AM
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I agree, this man obviously wants nothing more than to be left alone and is being arrested largely due to his famous chess play.
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07-16-2004, 11:41 AM
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Looks like he is being used as a pawn in an international game.
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07-16-2004, 12:15 PM
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This is terrible. prosecuted for having playing chess 12 years ago. Which prosecutor will be ridicule enough to charge him ?
I am ready to sign a petition to free him. The cold war chess propaganda have cease with the fall of the Berlin's wall. |
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07-16-2004, 12:18 PM
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Good to see our resources being spent on prosecuting truly important criminal activity. Go get 'em Ashcroft!
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein
I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that were the case, then Microsoft would have great products. - Steve Jobs |
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07-16-2004, 02:59 PM
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Wrong, he should be prosecuted. He violated an Executive Order "Executive Order 12810". he can't merely be forgotten.
And no, he doesn't only want to be left alone, he spends his time travelling and spouting incredibly absurd and hateful anti-jewish and anti-American broadcasts on any radio that will have him . . . he is a very big celebrity who is also a seriously disturbed nutcase who loves more than anything to spread his views through any means. here is a very good Biographical article: Fischer's Pathetic Endgame
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
--George W Bush "Narrative is what starts to happen after eight minutes” --Franklin Miller. "Nothing is more real than nothing." - Samuel Beckett |
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07-16-2004, 03:06 PM
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Soooo... He should be prosecuted for playing in Yugoslavia when he wasn´t allowed because he is spewing anti american and -jewish spew and is a nutcase?
"I reject your reality and substitute it with my own" - President Bush
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07-16-2004, 03:08 PM
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07-16-2004, 03:27 PM
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Yeah, let's start locking everyone up for going places our government says we can't and for saying offensive things!
YAY @ FASCISM!!!
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein
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07-16-2004, 04:12 PM
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"[Saddam's] a bad guy. He's a terrible guy and he should go. But I don't think it's worth 800 troops dead, 4500 wounded -- some of them terribly -- $200 billion of our treasury and counting, and our reputation and our image in the world, particularly in that region, shattered."
-- Retired Marine general Anthony Zinni "It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing." -- Former US Weapons Inspector David Kay "You're either with us or against us. This is war"--addabox |
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07-16-2004, 04:17 PM
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07-16-2004, 04:25 PM
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07-16-2004, 04:29 PM
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Chess genius are often egocentrist people.
There is not so many kind poeple among them, I am afraid. |
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07-16-2004, 05:06 PM
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p4wned!
I can change my sig again!
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07-16-2004, 05:38 PM
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He is clearly using his position in the Chess community to stir up anti-American sentiment. There is rumor he was in Japan to meet that Japanese subway terrorist guy. Never can be too careful in Bush's brave new world! I mean really, don't you feel safer now knowing this guy who willfully disobeyed his government to play chess, is now going to pay for his crimes? I'm sure he'll be in custody at Guantanamo before the month is over...
Aldo is watching....
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07-16-2004, 06:05 PM
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He was sending hidden messages to terror cells with his online chess games.
"Ride in on two horses to kill the queen."
"I reject your reality and substitute it with my own" - President Bush
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07-16-2004, 06:23 PM
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07-16-2004, 06:31 PM
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein
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07-16-2004, 11:49 PM
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In one part I said he should be arrested for breaking the law . . .a law given through direct Executive order. If he felt that the law was unjust then he could have attempted to do something about it through legal means, but he didn't. Then, in a completely different paragraph, I responded to the idea that he is merely a nice guy that wants only to be left alone: which is apparently not true. He doesn't want to be left alone, he wants to use forms of media to desseminate his ideas, ideas that are hateful and paranoid This has nothing to do with his arrest. In the course of a trail it will probably be found that he is at least borderline schizo/paranoid and might actually find some relief through therapy as well as avoid hard jail time. This (in a completely different paragraph) also has nothing to do with 'fascism' except insofar as he admires Hitler's 'ability to force his will on the world'
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
--George W Bush "Narrative is what starts to happen after eight minutes” --Franklin Miller. "Nothing is more real than nothing." - Samuel Beckett |
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07-17-2004, 06:17 AM
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In case I have to spell it out for you, he's mentally ill. The guy is paranoid schizo, which is kinda ironic, given that the US gov't is out to get him.
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07-17-2004, 08:01 AM
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"[Saddam's] a bad guy. He's a terrible guy and he should go. But I don't think it's worth 800 troops dead, 4500 wounded -- some of them terribly -- $200 billion of our treasury and counting, and our reputation and our image in the world, particularly in that region, shattered."
-- Retired Marine general Anthony Zinni "It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing." -- Former US Weapons Inspector David Kay "You're either with us or against us. This is war"--addabox |
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07-17-2004, 02:49 PM
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"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
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07-17-2004, 03:36 PM
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07-17-2004, 03:44 PM
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I don't say he is a schizophrenic either. |
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