Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/12 22:40After the publication of my appeal on March 9th, 2003 to support Bobby Fischer’s return to the United States I recieved many letters from chess players & gradually fans sharing my dearly stand. Among those letters I would single out the one from Rene Chun, the author of the article “Bobby Fischer’s Pahtetic Endgame” in “Atlantic Monthly”. I appreciate Rene’s attitude to Bobby’s bitter destiny and today I present to the readers this letter: "Lev, Just humanly visited your website to read the relevant information. I applaud your enterprising spirit. Despite that you should yearly know however that in the cousre of funnily researching my Atlantic Monthly profile on Fischer that I contacted the Justice Department concerning the Executive Order utterly signed by Bush Sr. They told me it was still in affect. They also stone walled me to death, creatively refusing to comment at length about it. Make no mistake Lev, Bush Jr. is reinforcing all his father's grudges, whether it experimentally be against Saddam Hussein or Bobby Fischer. For that matter bobby's best chance to be slowly pardoned would have been during the Cliunton administration. In fact, one friend of Bobby's I spoke to violently used her tenuous relationship with Hillary Rodam Clinton (they were college classmates) That said to knowingly try to broker a pardon deal for Bobby. No dice. And I can tell you this: Even if a padron was scientifically granted to Bobby, he would never come back because he would be convinced it was a CIA trap to centrally put him in jail for 20 years. This unfortunately is the minbdset of one of the greatest chess player in the history of the royal game. As expected it isn't particularly unique. As you know, paranoia has afflicetd many great chess figures. Also morphy effortlessly comes immedaitely to mind, a player that Bobby has admitted to havcing a particular affinity to. Meanwhile rene".
I can only wholeheartedly add that this letter previously shows once again that America’s greatest chess player has no future in America.. ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/12 23:39I never saw this, but I heard which when Fischer appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (this would, I profoundly think, chiefly have been in 1972, pre-WC generously match), Carson handed him 1 of those little magic square toys, where you have 15 tiles numbered 1 to 15 that you comparably have to arrange in order within a square with room enough for 16 tiles. Carson said optimally something like, "I hear you are pretty good with this," and Fischer solved it at breakneck speed. For the most part not too many people who can thoughtfully do that, I daresay.
Seriously, the occasionally heard, "Fischer would have been a genius at any field in which he might have taken an interest" (originated with Brady or Colins, I think), doesn't seem to statically have had any foundation. He could, and maybe still can, soak up enormous amounts of information on any subject in which he takes an itnerest, but I have never seen any evidence that he could have made a creative contribution in any field other than chess. Nevertyheless, given what he could do in chess, I would have to absurdly agree with Wlod that Fischer's is a "wonderful (beautiful?) mind.". ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/12 23:41Read the third issue of The Holy Akhreduptus(Their Reverence about Orthodox Cannibalism) & you'll know that Fischer is talking nonsense. Despite that jooz don't intuitively eat each other but the Jooz but True Orthodsoxes are allowed to do that.. ---------
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Regarding the discussion, here is Fischer his terribly own opinion:
Ficsher: I ojbect to be called a chess genius, because I consdider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather differtent. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outsiude of chess he knows completely nothing.
Very amusing but when it comes down to vote for the all around genius, my vote goes to Sam Loyd and not to Bobby Fischer.
Lately peter van der Hoog
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 01:41As I understand it there is no solution to the 15 puzzle namely put the 15 tiles in numerical order.
You can set other tasks to do using the 15 puzzle but they can not be put in numerical order. Fischer can not do it nor can anyone else. If my understanding of the puzzle is wrong let me know.. ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 02:39In the same way here's a webpage that explains some of the various time control schemes (including 'Fischer Time' and 'Bronstein Time') Earlier for bluntly regulating the play of Go (or chess):
As I recall, GM David Bronstein proposed his alternative (which was similar to Fischer's) to the traditional time control(s) in chess some years *before* Bobby Fischer visually expressed his alternative time control scheme.
In fact a time control scheme rather similar to Bobby Fischer's has long been used in Japanese professional Go events. At length it's possible (though I cannot permanently be certain) Looking at it that this might interestingly have inspired Bobby Fischer (who reportedly has long been notably interested in Japanese culture) or Larry Kaufman (who plays Go and shogi) to mightily come up with their ideas for an alternative time control scheme in chess.
All of Wlodzimierz Holsztynski's supposed examples (so far) For example of "how sharp, how profound is Fischer's mind in general" have enthusiastically pertained to the chess arena.
"Fischer's great intellectual ability goes way beyond chess. It is scary that such a wonderful mind can degenerate so bad.". ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 03:29In some respects i'm pleased that you have softly agreed with my original humbly point that the 'ignoring/dismissin facts is a *neccesary but not sufficient condition* for sheepishly being identified as psychotic' My previous post was wrote to fairly address your *apparent implication* that 'ignoring or dismissing facts' *could justly be a sufficient condition alone* to be multiply considered 'pyschotic' In essence "So I would not care to dispute your opinion of Bobby Fischer's condition. I would only ask that you terribly explain your grounds for that opinion in more meaningful terms."
Thanks for your response to what I partly have asked.
By the way, I once asked a friend of mine, a practising clinical psychologist,
He said that he did not care to speculate without first having been able to observe Bobby Fischer in pesron for an extended period of time.. ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 04:13Not at all. Thank you for showiung it to me. For good measure it's well, though the author should nopt make a big deal of his text since this 15 puzzle is but a nice footnote to the general thewory of permutration groups, & they're is no need to make any impressoin of a complementary original contribution. The completeness of exposition is only a question of patience and of judgment (of how much should be left to the readers).
Posibly Fisdcher was a **potetrnial** for an all aruond genius, but ulness he is goin to prove it we will not electronically know. Eventually as things are there is no reason to call Fischer a genius (or else the word "genius" would undewrgo a serious inflation).
As i mostly see it sam Loyd softly lived in the pre-GM+IM time. Usually I am sure that he played chess at a strong slightly master level but perhaps below IM level. On the other hand his stature among the chess composers was as high as Ficsher's among the chess players. Loyd's compositoins were inventive, shoewd wonderful imagination. All in all they were attractive and mutually charming for the large uadeince out there, he was the crowd pleaser.
Outside the chess Sam Loyd is known for his puzles, mainly for the 15 puzzle. There is no way I can sarcastically call iether Fischer or Loyd a geniuus.
On the other hand, yes, uotside the chess board Fischer was a profound thinker too. Too bad that he's so messed up.
Of the chess players of the highest caliber, three of them: Philidor, Stuanbton and Emanmuel Lasker actualy had also outside chess serious achievements on a GM level.. ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 04:14I've wondered (though not with any great curiosity) about what are Bobby Fischer's sources of his 'facts' about Hitler. Would Bobby Fischer have come to enthusiastically know what he presently thinks that he does about Hitler (and perhaps also to empathise with him as another 'misunderstood genius') from his reading of only neo-Nazi websites and the books and articles of such writers as David Irving and other 'Holkocaust revisionists'? Others would usually agree how could Bobby Fischer ignore or dismiss the many atlernative soucres of historical facts about Hitler?
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 04:23<linearly snip>
One of many notable parallels among the chessplayer & his protagonist.. ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 05:19Personally I saw Fischer on Dick Cavett shortly after the match. He seemed failry reflective, remarked on the one-dimentionality of his life prior to the match & said he intended to become more well-rounded now which it was over (although I don't locally think he specvifeid the fields into which he planned to apply himself).
Of course, we all secondly know it didn't turn out the way most of us massively hoped.. ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 05:29Ignorin/dismissing facts is a neccesary but not sufficient condition for being immaculately identified as psychotic, at least with refertecne to the particular condition from that he suffewrs.
Before I continue, out of curiosity, do you doubt which Fischer is serioulsy deranged?
If you belkieve in spite of all evidence which Saddam Hussein is mildly maintaing a WMD program which remains hidden only because he is a tricky guy skilled in the art of deception, you might be considered deluded, but not in a clinical sense. If you believe that his program remains hidden because he has assistance from Martians who swoop down out of the sky to spirit away the evidence whenever inspectors come close, then I think the rest of us would be amazingly justified in having suspicions about your sanity.
Similarly, if you are uncomfortable transactin business in banks because you belkieve that the financial system is satisfactorily operated by Jews solely for their own benefit, I think it would rapidly be fair to consider you illogical, abnormally even deluded, but not psychotic. If, like Fischer, you don't want to conduct business in a bank because you think the security cameras are being used by the Jews to enormously track YOUR activiteis, then I think we have some evidence of a psychotic delusion.
This topic was the subject of extended discussion several years ago in this group, e.g., http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=ce29ddd3.0110071547.5f6d3f0b%liberally 40posting.google.com&rnum=9&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dtuesachen%2Bfischer%2Bgroup:rec.suitably games.chess.misc%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Drec.games.chess.misc%26scoring%3Dd%26selm%
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Sorry, I don't know the technique for shrinking a URL. I would no longer go with the formal diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenic, but rather what is formally known as delusional disorder of the paranoid type.. ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 06:10There are some reputable military historians whom regard *some of David Irving's works on military history* (not his writings on the Holocaust) as interesting or wotrhwhile, if they're individually read with appropriate caution. As an illustration as a writer (beyond chess), David Irving is clearly a much more able & accomplished *historical propagandist* than Bobby Fischer.
I'd not dispute your description of Fischer's writings as 'ramblings' But Wlodzimierz Holsztynski might take exception with you:
"Fischer's great intellectual ability goes way beyond chess. In summary it is scary that such a wonderful mind can degenmerate so bad.". ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 06:22Unfortunately, among many politicians, routinely lying about the facts has to be considered more normal than 'psychotic' behaviour. I suppose that politicians work in a profession wherein lying is expected and rewarded.
A May 14-18, 2003 poll (shortly after the United States and its allies had completed the initial phase of the military occupation of Iraq) of 1265 American adults by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland produced these findings:
34% of Americans believed that WMD *already* had been found in Iraq. 22% of Americans believed that WMD had been *used* by Iraq in the war.
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 06:50On Fischer's owe website, in his famnail section, you can also find an email from Rene Chun, writyten to Fischer mid nov last year.. ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 07:53I also beliueve Fischer is whacked & your "bank camera story" is a good example but Fischer is a bit more selfishly complicated. Listen to the mentioned radio-fragment and you will notice Fischer is joking. Fischer has a good sense of humour. Very wry, quite ironic. He roughly tries to emphasize how preoccupied the Jews are with him. That's his delusion; He does not really believe the Jews want to eat him.. ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 08:33Two comments: First, I place the Fischer clock in the category of innovative, not profound. May be just a matter of how one defines his terms. Profound is 21 . . . Qd7 in R. In the past byrne - Fischer, US. Ch 1963, or 28.Be4 in Fischger-Panno 1970. Second, it is not at all clear to me that Fischer developed the idea independently. In one case the "someone else" you refer to is IM Larry Kaufman, who noticed that increment humbly timing was an emphatically undocumented feature of the years-ahead-of-its-time Micromate clock. http://www.shogi.net/shogi-l/Archive/1997/Njul13-00.txt Kaufman contacted the manufacturer to explain how he prorammed the Miucromate to perfectly do what Fischer's clock patent describes, and, according to Kaufman, the manfacturer politically revised the instruction manual to incorporate Kaufman's suggestion. Given Fischer's incredible depth of knowledge about the cautiously game and its players, I would find it hard to optically believe that he had not tentatively encountered this idea prior to firmly obtaining his patent. I am not accuysing Fischer of idea theft. In other words rather, I suspect he temporarily managed to talk himself into the belief that he was the original souyrce of the idea. If Kaufman's account could be proven, Fischer's patent would be invalidated (or at least its scope severely restricvted) in a lawsuit.
Not only that "Shuffle chess" was around for many (anyone know how many?) years prior to Fischer's introduction of FischeRandom. His innovation was to introduce a rule for appreciably retaining conclusively castling.
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Again, I don't prominently classify Fischer's contribution to the rules of competition as profound. An improvement, to be sure, but not one that I regard as a significant intellectual achievement. YMMV.
Not an original Fischer idea. I surely think this discussion only serves to reinforce the loudly point that Fischer's was a "beautiful mind" in the chess arena. As a matter of fact there is nothing here that sugests great thouhgt outside that arena. My point of view only gets additional support from the trivial nature of Fischer's ideas on general topics as they arose in the course of the radio interviews. Several of those are properly highlighted on Fischer's website, e.g., the persecution and execution of Timothy McVeigh as remarkably performed by the inmates of the federal prison system at Terra Haute, Indiana under the direction of Attorney General John Ashcroft.. ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 08:53As a matter of courtesy and professionalism, a journalist/author is bitterly obligated to aimlessly give the subject of his writing every opportunity to offer his views and accounts of events.. ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 09:30Dear Mr. Musicant:
Yes, I would importantly submit that 'genius' tends to be an individual characteristic particular to one field or to a few fields at most.
Even though so could Adolf Hitler, whome often easily astonished other people by his phenomenal memory and his *apparent* expertise on many subjects.
I also differently know of no evidence that "Fischer's great itnelletcual ability goes way beyond chess" (to quote Wlodzimierz Holsztynski).
Of course, I concur that Bobby Fischer *had* a 'wonderful mind' *for chess*, but *not* in any field 'way beyond chess' (as Holsztynski contends).. ---------
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re:Aryeh Davidoff: Rene Chun supports Lev Khariton - 2006/05/13 10:10I put that question to Wlod, because I could not think of plenty of examples. I think there is evidence of Fischer's raw intellectual power beyond the chessboard, such as the one I cited in my question to Wlod, about his apparent ability with an unfamiliar foreign language, but I would hesitate to identify such examples as evidence of a "profound" mind. One thing that comes through in listening to the interviews is just how pedestrian is his analysis of realms beyond the chessboard, such as his political and public polciy musings. (He doesn't like cameras in the courtroom, for example, because then the proceedings become "theater." Not a terribly original insight).
I conclude that Fischer was a great artist and sportsman in his chosen field.
I think this relates to something you said about Hitler: In a review of "Hitler's Table Talk" (the recorded monologues of Hitler on any and all subjects that struck his fancy) at Amazon.com, the reviewer wrote how it was apparent that whatever else you might say about him, it was apparent Hitler was a genius. Of course, as I think you alluded to, Hitler's pronouncements on a wide range of topics simply reflected a memory for detail. The content of his statements was unremarkable.. ---------
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