Chess Forum / General Topics / August 2004

It is complete bullshit for the US authorities to say that if they
accept that Fischer is no longer a US citizen (I put it this way because
he has already renounced US citizenship), this won't allow him to escape
prosecution.

Which are the most popular/recommended turn-based (email type) chess web sites?
I have heard of the following:
    http://www.chessworld.net
    http://www.itsyourturn.net

Two letters from Edward McKeon, minister counsellor and consul general
at the US embassy in Manila, Philippines, to the director general at the
immigration bureau of the Japanese ministry of justice, dated 8 June
2004 and 11 August 2004, have been posted at Bobby Fischer's website.

Every time I take a look at this forum "RJF" is mentioned somewhere at
least once, Heaven help us if the US ever has another world champion!
We will be doomed to another 30 years of speculative posting!
Of course I realise that I've just added to the "RJF" posting pile!

I have tried to download this kind of endgame from the Robert M. Hyatt
Site and similar sites with 6 pieces endgames, but i can't find it.
With the file Tbgen.exe or tbgenm.exe i can't create endgames more
than 5 pieces and i don't understand it, there are some endgames done

It's amazing: when you look at lists of the world's best chessplayers,
American players are rarely found near the top.  I suppose it's
because we've never been much of a chessplaying nation.
YET, when you look at the two truly great players the US has produced,

Bobby Fischer plans to marry Japanese woman
Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, who remains detained in
Japan facing deportation for using a passport U.S. officials say is
invalid, has decided to marry a Japanese woman, his lawyer said

From The Problem of Dressing Room A by Jacques Futrelle.
http://www.blackmask.com/books124c/dressadex.htm
It was absolutely impossible. Twenty-five chess masters from the world at
large, foregathered in Boston for the annual championship, unanimously

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1843
Moreover...
The web page also says that the organizers of Mainz could provide Fischer
with subsistence in that locality. That's really all that Fischer needs,

Lawson's bio of Morphy was priced new @ $20 U.S. and sells for $200
used.
It's a sellers market if any company will get permission and
republish, for instance I'm waiting to buy when affordable...!

They always have, and they always will.
Fischer actually WORKED at the game.  He played sound openings, and sound
chess.  He studied all the time.  He wasn't lazy.
He was everything that our "talent" since is not, and they HATE him for it.

Various people have speculated that Fischer's passport ought to have
been confiscated by US authorities in Switzerland, if in fact the
government had wanted to pursue a case against him.  But other
reporting has said that his mother was a Swiss Jew.  If she was born

How do you spell that mantra that goes something like:
Nah myoho rengay kio?

And that includes the morally bankrupt Kasparov and all the Israely players
who were rightly banned.
They should by reading chomsky more often. Fischer maybe mentally ill but
his views on jews and America are correct to a large extent.

The new FIDE champion Rustam K participated in a Dutch tournament held in
the usual 9 round Swiss format. He fared rather badly, losing to Sasikiran
and a lesser known Dutch player, and landed in shared 21-43 place (of 245).
His performance rating is only 2476!