LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
(Two letters praise the Fischer coverage in #2 2008 but this excerpt
of a letter from Kevin Cotreau, Milford NH, USA, calls him a horrible
human being.}
I am so tired of the sycophantic, Bobby-Fischer-ass-kissing articles
like the one written by Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam in 2008/2. Bobby
Fischer was a horrible human being and a wanted criminal in his home
country. Your love of chess has blinded you to the fact that he was a
lot more than just "eccentric" or mentally ill....He was a vile person
not worthy of your incessant fawning...a man willing to think that a
letter was poisoned and then let an innocent person open it instead.
It is obvious from his dealings with his closest "friends" that this
guy was clearly nothing more than a "taker," not a real friend who
gave back....
I am not Jewish, but Fischer's hideous anti-Semitic tirades combined
with his admiration of Hitler ("We once watched a do***entary about
Nazi Germany and upon leaving the theatre Bobby said that he admired
Hitler" -- Larry Evans, Chess Life 3/2008 p. 15) and claims that the
Holocaust was a "hoax" (Jan Timman, New In Chess 2008/2 p. 34) should
clue you in to who this man really was....
As a 7-year veteran of the U.S. military, what personally bothers me
the most were Fischer's rants in the Philippines, when he called the
9/11 attacks "wonderful news" and that that the U.S. "has to be
destroyed." To every American, this man was a traitor during a time of
war.
Love his inanimate games, but this guy was sick, and well beyond
mental illness, so stop using that as an excuse. He was a hate-monger
to the bone and to deify him personally is wrong on every level. You
guys love, and I use a word Fischer used often, a real "creep...."
parrthenon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> QUICK INTERVIEW WITH JEREMY SILMAN
>
> Q. If you could change one thing in the chess world, what would it be?
>
> A. I would like to see many of the governing bodies (FIDE#, USCF,
> etc.) fall into a black hole.
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