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March 24, 2012

Bobby Fischer vs. Yefim Geller, 1961
— rdbrewer

Updated: I've added what came to be known as "the game of the century."

This is exciting, smash-mouth chess. If you know the game.

He's using the "Spanish Opening" or the "Ruy Lopez." Geller is defending with the "modern Steinitz variation." I recommend stopping the video after each move and trying to guess what the players will do. Fun stuff.

Added: One more. Here is "the Bobby Fischer trap." I think it's a "Ruy Lopez" opening against the "Sicilian defense 'accelerated dragon' version" (without iocane powder).

Okay, one more. And this is the last one more.

Thanks to commenter "rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012," this is Bobby Fischer vs. Donald Byrne in 1956 in what became known as "the game of the century." Fischer was 13.

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1 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2012 04:54 PM (7W3wI)

2 S Fischer was 18 or so at the time?

Posted by: booey at March 24, 2012 04:56 PM (4nxhP)

3 Try 5th dimension chess sometime, ya newbs!

Posted by: Genius O Bama at March 24, 2012 04:57 PM (FIDMq)

4 And Geller was about 46?

Posted by: booey at March 24, 2012 04:58 PM (4nxhP)

5 The only Spanish opening I want is Penelope Cruz.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 24, 2012 04:58 PM (Af3Wg)

Half the population is flipping out over Treyvon. 99 percent of black america is throwing a fit.

Posted by: guy at March 24, 2012 04:59 PM (uhPd1)

7 Remember when Alex P Keaton played that Communist in the Leland College chess tournament and they both tried to lose and just ended up spooning on the table? That was a really boring episode in my opinion.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at March 24, 2012 05:00 PM (3wYCm)

8 Was Geller the guy who bent spoons with his mind?

Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2012 05:00 PM (7W3wI)

9 No, Geller is the broad with the leather oven mitts.

Posted by: DC in Towson at March 24, 2012 05:02 PM (I/cLr)

10 This is exciting, smash-mouth chess.

Fischer was a relentless attacker.

Posted by: fluffy at March 24, 2012 05:02 PM (z9HTb)

11 Fischer was totally punching down.

Posted by: NC Ref at March 24, 2012 05:04 PM (/izg2)

12 I was on my toes at a couple points, trying to figure out the next move - I suck at chess, but I like watching vids like this.

Posted by: Where's my pressie? at March 24, 2012 05:04 PM (X5Hwz)

13 "Was Geller the guy who bent spoons with his mind?" That was Carol Anne Freeling

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at March 24, 2012 05:05 PM (3wYCm)

14 And Geller was about 46?

36. Yes, I had to look it up.

I like Geller's style.

http://www.chessgames.com

Posted by: fluffy at March 24, 2012 05:05 PM (z9HTb)

15 STOP TALKING ABOUT MY TITS!!!

oh, wait.

Posted by: Pamela G. at March 24, 2012 05:05 PM (ay6+/)

16 Why do the black pieces always go second?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 24, 2012 05:05 PM (Af3Wg)

17 Posted by: Pamela G. at March 24, 2012 09:05 PM (ay6+/) Nice queens!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 24, 2012 05:06 PM (Af3Wg)

18 black e5 against white e4 is just asking for trouble.

Posted by: davidt at March 24, 2012 05:07 PM (axc/z)

19 I prefer Paz Vega.

Posted by: Jimbo at March 24, 2012 05:08 PM (O3R/2)

20 that was Uri Geller...utter fraud, but not quite as much as Lord Urkel Hussein McPutt-Putt

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 05:08 PM (PWwbk)

Gotta admit, this is a change of pace.

Posted by: HH at March 24, 2012 05:08 PM (KB0hv)

22 Man, he punished Geller.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 24, 2012 05:09 PM (Iyg03)

23 But like Homer Simpson said....it takes two to lie; one to lie, one to listen

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 05:09 PM (PWwbk)

24 Why do the black pieces always go second?

They're very polite and self-effacing.

Posted by: Heorot at March 24, 2012 05:09 PM (m2aLJ)

25 It's Saturday night . There were no boobies on that vid . Are there no morons here ?

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at March 24, 2012 05:10 PM (npr0X)

26 Chess? Is that like checkers?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 05:10 PM (niZvt)

27 but was he wearing a hoodie at the time?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 24, 2012 05:10 PM (RZ8pf)

28 19 I prefer Paz Vega.

Is that the mexican appetizer made of squirrels?

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 05:10 PM (PWwbk)

29 The electable candidate just lost his 13th state, according to projections.

Posted by: Chris at March 24, 2012 05:10 PM (XGZYX)

30 Chess. When golf is too exciting.

Posted by: nickless at March 24, 2012 05:11 PM (MMC8r)

31 Therefore, we, the undersigned, respectfully request that Congress bring H.R. 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, up for consideration and commit to holding a straight, up-or-down vote on it this year. Thereafter, we, the undersigned, respectfully request that President Obama sign this legislation into law.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 24, 2012 05:11 PM (e8kgV)

32 Signal Corps guys would like this: They're mostly dweebs.

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at March 24, 2012 05:12 PM (Dll6b)

33 man, my bully-dog just let one fly....gotta open the windows before i barf....

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 05:12 PM (PWwbk)

34 Of course, Fischer has always been a raving loon anytime he wasn't seated in front of a chess board. And sometimes, even then. "Bobby Fischer Goes To War" is a great book about his match with Spassky, where he actually used his raving lunacy as a weapon against the Soviets. Great read.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 24, 2012 05:12 PM (FIE/L)

35 I always enjoy the "Whack the Board with My Fist While Cursing Violently" finish after someone gets pwned.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 24, 2012 05:13 PM (eHIJJ)

36 31 Fabulous.Next up the "Sandra Fluke Free Birth Control Act of 2012".

Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2012 05:13 PM (7W3wI)

37 26 Chess? Is that like checkers? Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 09:10 PM (niZvt) Cool Czechers...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 24, 2012 05:13 PM (Af3Wg)

38 Chess. From the 60's. Boy do we know how to burn up a Saturday night or what.

Posted by: mama winger at March 24, 2012 05:14 PM (P6QsQ)

39 5 The only Spanish opening I want is Penelope Cruz. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 24, 2012 08:58 PM (Af3Wg) Your Bishop to Penelope's Trap?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 05:14 PM (niZvt)

40 Isn't Fischer the tool who renounced his citizenship and moved to (heh) Iceland? What, is he into sodomizing harp seals or something?

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 05:14 PM (PWwbk)

41 "...and as the continents drift slowly into the west, we bid a fond farewell to the Pleistocene Era..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 24, 2012 05:14 PM (Af3Wg)

42 mama, you said it....

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 05:15 PM (PWwbk)

O/T but did you guys read (or is it just in the Seattle media because he's from here) that the US soldier (Bales) did the massacres in two separate incidents? He went out, killed a bunch, came back, went out again and killed more.

Seriously, this story is really not adding up.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 24, 2012 05:15 PM (RZ8pf)

44 20 I know.

Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2012 05:15 PM (7W3wI)

45 Your Bishop to Penelope's Trap? Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 09:14 PM (niZvt) My fly, her trap. Bishops flogged at dawn...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 24, 2012 05:15 PM (Af3Wg)

46 I prefer the French in response to E4. The Sicilian has been analyzed to death, everybody knows it. Not so much the French. Fischer also liked the French defense on occasion.

Posted by: davidt at March 24, 2012 05:15 PM (axc/z)

47 42

Yeah, Bobby Fischer was pretty much batshit insane. Dude could play chess, though.

Posted by: kartoffel at March 24, 2012 05:16 PM (OgNv0)

48 So is it Black versus white Black?

Posted by: MFM Stylebook at March 24, 2012 05:16 PM (eHIJJ)

49 42 I thought he lives in Japan?

Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2012 05:16 PM (7W3wI)

50 Chess. From the 60's.

The classics never go out of style.

Posted by: fluffy at March 24, 2012 05:17 PM (z9HTb)

Posted by: Peaches at March 24, 2012 05:17 PM (w407e)

52 steevy.....

there is no spoon....

(matrix)

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 05:17 PM (PWwbk)

53 Early night, kiddies. Let me know how this scintillating match turns out.........

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 24, 2012 05:17 PM (Af3Wg)

54 I'm a pretty smart guy but I suck at Chess.I can't focus on the consequences of a move in the future,my mind wanders.

Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2012 05:18 PM (7W3wI)

55 Paz Vega. Such a nice girl in "Spanglish"

Such a naughty girl in "Carmen"

Posted by: Jimbo at March 24, 2012 05:18 PM (O3R/2)

56 Chess? Bobby Fisher? Oh jeez.

Posted by: Corona at March 24, 2012 05:19 PM (fh2Y7)

57 I always counter the Brooks Opening with the French Mistake.
Posted by: Zombie Dom DeLouise at March 24, 2012 09:16 PM

Everybody's doing the French mistake.

Posted by: huerfano at March 24, 2012 05:19 PM (bAGA/)

58 The Sicilian has been analyzed to death, everybody knows it.

You're joking, right?

Posted by: fluffy at March 24, 2012 05:19 PM (z9HTb)

59 Hot chicks with large breasteses should play. They'd never lose.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 24, 2012 05:19 PM (Af3Wg)

60 Everybody's doing the French mistake. Posted by: huerfano at March 24, 2012 09:19 PM (bAGA/) France is a French mistake.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 24, 2012 05:19 PM (Af3Wg)

"Boy do we know how to burn up a Saturday night or what."

Me, I'm just killing time till Monty Pythons Flying Circus comes up later on PBS.

Wait, what?

Posted by: HH at March 24, 2012 05:20 PM (KB0hv)

62 Anyone remember Battle Chess, where the pieces would beat the shit out of each other when one piece took another?

Posted by: Hoss Fuentes at March 24, 2012 05:20 PM (kt+R2)

63 Sicilian defense? "Never bet a Sicilian when death is on the line."

Or

"Sicilians love money more than their children. And they really love their children."

Posted by: Jimbo at March 24, 2012 05:21 PM (O3R/2)

64 The French Mistake? Is that the opening where the player shaves the Queen's armpits, brandishes a crucifix against a can of Right Guard and retires the King within 3 moves?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 24, 2012 05:21 PM (FIE/L)

65 The Sicilian has been analyzed to death, everybody knows it.

Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!

Posted by: Vizzini at March 24, 2012 05:21 PM (Iyg03)

66 when I was in college, I played a game of chess with a roomie who thought he was quite the shit at it...he beat me badly for the first few games but I was learning. The next day, it was more or less even. After a week, he lost badly, and hasn't beaten me since, and won't even play anymore, even though now it's twenty years later. He's a lib douche so I taunt him constantly because of that.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 05:21 PM (PWwbk)

67 71 Yep.

Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2012 05:22 PM (7W3wI)

68 69 Hot chicks with large breasteses should play. They'd never lose. I admit, I would pay good money to watch Christina Hendrixs play Katy Perry in chess.........only if they agreed to play topless. Posted by: They Call Him SCOAMF at March 24, 2012 09:20 PM (OWjjx) Remember the scene from the original "Thomas Crown Affair" where Faye Dunaway is masturbating the bishop and McQueen is hypnotized by the motion?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 24, 2012 05:22 PM (Af3Wg)

69 The French Mistake? Is that the opening where the player shaves the Queen's armpits, brandishes a crucifix against a can of Right Guard and retires the King within 3 moves?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 24, 2012 09:21 PM (FIE/L)

I thought that was the song at the end of Blazing Saddles?

Posted by: Hoss Fuentes at March 24, 2012 05:23 PM (kt+R2)

70 "Remember the scene from the original "Thomas Crown Affair" where Faye Dunaway is masturbating the bishop and McQueen is hypnotized by the motion?"

Touch move!

Posted by: davidt at March 24, 2012 05:23 PM (axc/z)

71 Jimbo beat me to it.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 24, 2012 05:23 PM (Iyg03)

72 Let the wookie win.

Posted by: C3PO at March 24, 2012 05:23 PM (FIE/L)

73 Ruy Lopez? Does that mean the little ones have to do the work the others won't do?

Posted by: no math at March 24, 2012 05:23 PM (4Bh6U)

74 He's using the "Spanish Opening" or the "Ruy Lopez."

We know it as the "Dirty Sanchez".

You know this opening gambit lead to a musical written by ABBA don't you?

Posted by: AmishDude at March 24, 2012 05:24 PM (fNK8e)

75 My college girlfriend and I played chest all the time.

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 24, 2012 05:25 PM (vpe0k)

76 64 The Sicilian has been analyzed to death, everybody knows it. The Sicilian? Isn't that a hot cappicola & ham with roasted peppers and provolone on a hard roll down at our local deli?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 05:25 PM (niZvt)

77 Well the bishop piece is kind of small but I guess you could masturbate with it.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 24, 2012 05:25 PM (RZ8pf)

78 Remember the scene from the original "Thomas Crown Affair" where Faye Dunaway is masturbating the bishop and McQueen is hypnotized by the motion? Hold on a sec . I did'nt see the original . Was she giving a Bishop an old fashoined ..... or was she diddling herself with a chess piece ?

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at March 24, 2012 05:25 PM (npr0X)

79 If you're keeping score the electable candidate has already lost 6 more states than Bush in 2000 and 7 more states than Dole in 1996.

Posted by: Chris at March 24, 2012 05:26 PM (XGZYX)

80 On the menu for tonight...fried rice with shrimp...lotsa soy sauce...mmmm.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 05:26 PM (PWwbk)

81 87 Not in some Chess sets.

Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2012 05:26 PM (7W3wI)

82 It depends on how it is prepared. Gordon Ramsey goes into Italian restaurants all the time to teach them how to do it right. Ironic. No?

Posted by: Jimbo at March 24, 2012 05:26 PM (O3R/2)

83 Bobby Fischer, uhh, punched above his weight.

Posted by: Baraka Obama at March 24, 2012 05:27 PM (FcR7P)

84 I tried the Greek Opening on my wife, but got my bishop handed to me...

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 05:27 PM (niZvt)

85 What. The. Fuck.

Posted by: ErikW at March 24, 2012 05:27 PM (MDyuS)

86 I like the different patterns they put on all the checkers.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 24, 2012 05:28 PM (FcR7P)

87 Whose the chic with the eyes and the four bad things destroying men?

Posted by: ConcealedKerry or SubMitt at March 24, 2012 05:29 PM (nonzP)

88 We are NOT keeping score. Romney has more than half of the 1144 that he needs. Louissianna is chump change.

Posted by: Jimbo at March 24, 2012 05:29 PM (O3R/2)

89 Gordon Ramsey should be beaten to a pulp, bound with barbed wire, then doused in gasoline and set on fire.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 05:29 PM (PWwbk)

90 We never paid attention to that black pawn, until it was captured and now we won't rest until the white rook is destroyed.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 24, 2012 05:29 PM (fNK8e)

91 Moving these little pieces around is a lot like community organizing

Posted by: My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of inven at March 24, 2012 05:30 PM (L3b/H)

92 well I mean I guess that's true, but you'd need a ladder to use one of those bishops from an outdoor chess set.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 24, 2012 05:31 PM (RZ8pf)

93 That was great AmishDude

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 24, 2012 05:31 PM (RZ8pf)

94 Didn't Bobby Fisher turn out to be some commie whacko or something like that? I seem to remember hearing/reading that somewhere...

Posted by: Balsamic Shotgun at March 24, 2012 05:31 PM (sTS/8)

95 Ramsey is a asshole that I would never want to work for. Talk about a "hostile work environment."

But. I would like to eat at one of his restaurants.

Posted by: Jimbo at March 24, 2012 05:31 PM (O3R/2)

96 98 Whose the chic with the eyes and the four bad things destroying men? Posted by: ConcealedKerry or SubMitt at March 24, 2012 09:29 PM (nonzP) I don't know, but she looks like she would chew your head off while you're doinking her. And your headless body would continue humping her, just because it would be that good...

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 05:32 PM (niZvt)

97 Over 100 posts, and no one mentions the black queen?

Posted by: HH at March 24, 2012 05:32 PM (KB0hv)

98 The Ruy Lopez, by the way, is a white Spanish Opening. Go ahead, try to use it as Black, the first piece you ambush will be your demise.

Posted by: Al Sharpton at March 24, 2012 05:32 PM (FcR7P)

99 How come British food is supposed to be shite, yet all these famous TV chefs are British?

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 24, 2012 05:32 PM (vpe0k)

100 On Ramsey's show, how do the restaurant owners not know to clean the fooking place BEFORE his crew arrives for taping?

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 24, 2012 05:33 PM (4q5tP)

101 The Black Queen? Isn't she flying off to Timbuktu this week?

Posted by: Jimbo at March 24, 2012 05:33 PM (O3R/2)

102 Is chess anything like naked Twister?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 05:33 PM (niZvt)

103 well I mean I guess that's true, but you'd need a ladder to use one of those bishops from an outdoor chess set.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 24, 2012 09:31 PM (RZ8pf)

Not necessarily.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 24, 2012 05:34 PM (4q5tP)

104 108 Over 100 posts, and no one mentions the black queen? Posted by: HH at March 24, 2012 09:32 PM (KB0hv) Rue Paul?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 05:34 PM (niZvt)

105 Yeah, Jimbo....when you have to work for the Uber-Asshole, I'm sure every booger and pubic hair finds its way into your creme brulee.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 05:35 PM (PWwbk)

106 Is chess anything like naked Twister? Depends on the made up rules .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at March 24, 2012 05:35 PM (npr0X)

107 In last nights show, the place was clean. The menu was old and the owner was psychotic (not gay). Solution: Update the menu. Bring in a new chef to teach Ramon (or whatever) the cooking skills.

Posted by: Jimbo at March 24, 2012 05:35 PM (O3R/2)

108

ItÂ’s the end of the day at the State High School chess tournament and a bunch of the geeks have gathered in the hotel lobby which, by the way, features an attractive open fire pit. As more Coca Colas and Mountain Dews are consumed the group gets louder and begins recounting their past exploits- Czeckmates in three moves, opponents reduced to crying like little girls, and so on.

Charlton Heston has been quietly reading National Review in a corner of the lobby. After putting up with this for thirty minutes, he gets to his feet, pulls out his Ruger and starts shooting. He later tells the police, Â“I hate chess nuts boasting round an open fire.Â”

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at March 24, 2012 05:35 PM (+Daz8)

109 her, just because it would be that good...

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 09:32 PM (niZvt)

Yes , Yes I imagine it would be that good, headless even.

Posted by: ConcealedKerry or SubMitt at March 24, 2012 05:36 PM (nonzP)

110 model-1066, Huh?

I never, ever, worked for anyone like that. What do you mean?

Posted by: Jimbo at March 24, 2012 05:37 PM (O3R/2)

111 Is you, or is you ain't, my constichency!

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 24, 2012 05:37 PM (vpe0k)

112 If I had a son, he'd grow up to be the Black Queen, so I'm a little disturbed by all this warfare...

Posted by: Baraka Obama at March 24, 2012 05:37 PM (FcR7P)

113 Paul/Kookspinach 2012 3/4

Posted by: ConcealedKerry or SubMitt at March 24, 2012 05:37 PM (nonzP)

114 Wait -- chess? What's that got to do with Tim Tebow?

Posted by: All Things Tebow at March 24, 2012 05:38 PM (sTS/8)

115 IIRC, Fischer generally had a hard time playing Geller, just as he had a hard time with Spassky until the world championship. Those Russians were tough and collaborated on games that were adjourned to try to keep Fischer down. Fischer didn't have nearly as much talent helping him.

Posted by: waelse1 at March 24, 2012 05:39 PM (VaU8E)

116

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at March 24, 2012 09:35 PM (+Daz

Me and the boyz just put a bounty on yer head...

Posted by: HH at March 24, 2012 05:40 PM (KB0hv)

117 Knight jumps queen!

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 24, 2012 05:41 PM (nTJrq)

118 Did Geller ever think about having his rook run the option? Seems to me that woulda been a pretty efficient strategy...

Posted by: ESPN Sports Center at March 24, 2012 05:42 PM (sTS/8)

119 I'd love to play chest with Christina Hendricks, I must say...

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 05:42 PM (niZvt)

120 O/T: Obama campaign staffer "David Dix" (NTTAWWT) launched a new #Gen44 Twitter hashtag to indicate that you're a young person who supports the SCOAMT.

You can probably guess what Jim Treacher and Iowahawk (among many others) are doing with it instead.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 24, 2012 05:42 PM (5apRk)

121 Bishop jumps Queen!!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 24, 2012 05:44 PM (4q5tP)

122 Jimbo, I worked in food service a long time ago, and I have heard stories that would gag a maggot. No offense to you, but trust is a fragile notion between the owner/manager of a restaurant and the employees that they burden with their emotional handicaps.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 05:44 PM (PWwbk)

123 Didn't Fischer's chess career flame out because he developed a bad habit of choking the bishop?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 05:45 PM (niZvt)

124 Uri Geller was the spoon bender.

I could lose to Christina. I hope that if I lost I would have be punished by providing her my princely services.

Posted by: Jimbo at March 24, 2012 05:45 PM (O3R/2)

125 I really loved that movie about Fischer, sort of documentary-like. I can't remember the name of it. Bobby Fischer Against the World, or something.

Fischer was brilliant at chess. In a class of his own. It's a shame that he was such a paranoid, but that might have been part of his chess brilliance.

I never really cared about what he said or did. He didn't carry any weight and had no influence in anything. He was clearly insane, so it appeared all harmless blubbering. It would have been nice to get more chess out of him, but maybe that's just all he had in him?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 24, 2012 05:45 PM (X3lox)

126 Any chance Penelope Cruz would like to Czech mate?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 05:46 PM (niZvt)

127 @136: I really loved that movie about Fischer, sort of documentary-like.

--------------------------------------

"In Search of Bobby Fischer"? S'posed to be really good.

Posted by: Balsamic Shotgun at March 24, 2012 05:47 PM (sTS/8)

128 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBlXcCRyhxM
not a hate crime

Posted by: Jean at March 24, 2012 05:47 PM (9yGfP)

129

Bishop takes Queen!

err, sorry, wrong site.

Posted by: HH at March 24, 2012 05:47 PM (KB0hv)

130 Stop making fun of my friend David

Posted by: Sammy Sux at March 24, 2012 05:48 PM (QTHTd)

131 Or maybe "Searching for Bobby Fischer" -- I dunno.

Posted by: Balsamic Shotgun at March 24, 2012 05:48 PM (sTS/8)

132 model_1066, thanks for the heads-up

I don't eat out much. Your advice certainly makes me not want to increase that.

Posted by: Jimbo at March 24, 2012 05:48 PM (O3R/2)

133 King Queens Bishop!

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 05:49 PM (niZvt)

134 Balsamic for the win!

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 05:49 PM (PWwbk)

135 NERDS!

NERDS!

NERDS!

NERDS!

NERDS!

Posted by: logprof at March 24, 2012 05:49 PM (ykSKg)

136 100 Gordon Ramsey should be beaten to a pulp, bound with barbed wire, then doused in gasoline and set on fire.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 09:29 PM (PWwbk)

I seriously doubt this is the best way to cook a ramsey. Should be low heat over an extended period rather than a burst of high heat for a short duration.

Posted by: Ammo Dump at March 24, 2012 05:51 PM (WUWb9)

137 An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented. Â ~Lemony Snicket

Posted by: Caunotaucarius at March 24, 2012 05:51 PM (SHvfC)

138 @146: NERDS!
--------------------

OGRE! OGRE! OGRE! OGRE!

Posted by: Alpha Betas at March 24, 2012 05:51 PM (sTS/8)

139

Posted by: logprof at March 24, 2012 09:49 PM (ykSKg

What? You saying we've been pawned?

Posted by: HH at March 24, 2012 05:52 PM (KB0hv)

140 Ogre is on the Capitol One commercials

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 24, 2012 05:52 PM (vpe0k)

141

Pawns jump Queen!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 24, 2012 05:52 PM (4q5tP)

142 Jimbo, to be honest, it's really the customer that decides that....act like you're owed something, leave a lousy tip...you can guess what happens next. I myself go out of my way to be nice and generous to whoever I encounter in any restaurant, whether it's Burger King or an upscale Brazilian steakhouse.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 05:52 PM (PWwbk)

143 I like watching Adam Richman eat.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at March 24, 2012 05:52 PM (3wYCm)

144 Smash mouth CHESS?! WT?

Posted by: Tami at March 24, 2012 05:53 PM (X6akg)

145 Jean, I saw that just before it got yanked off of Youtube. Disgusting

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at March 24, 2012 05:53 PM (QTHTd)

146 "In Search of Bobby Fischer"? S'posed to be really good.

Posted by: Balsamic Shotgun at March 24, 2012 09:47 PM (sTS/

Different movie. That was an excellent movie, though. There were a few lefty anti-competitive themes in it, but not too much and it was a very fun movie. Highly recommended.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 24, 2012 05:54 PM (X3lox)

147

Uri Geller was the spoon bender.

Posted by: Jimbo at March 24, 2012 09:45 PM (O3R/2)

I did light and sound for a local magician back in the day, I know that trick.

I also know how to disappear a Lear Jet from a runway.

Posted by: ErikW at March 24, 2012 05:54 PM (MDyuS)

148 Booger outbelched Ogre. Nerds win!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 24, 2012 05:56 PM (4q5tP)

149 I love hanging out here;
Come for the morons, stay for the scintillating discussion.

Posted by: Sean C. at March 24, 2012 05:56 PM (VnEUj)

150 Dick Cheney, ''All the best to you from all of us',

Posted by: NortonPete at March 24, 2012 05:56 PM (8zxoH)

151 I say we blow their fucking houses up.

Posted by: Booger at March 24, 2012 05:57 PM (sTS/8)

152

"I also know how to disappear a Lear Jet from a runway. "

Not stealing the sucker, I'd presume...

Posted by: HH at March 24, 2012 05:57 PM (KB0hv)

153 Still can't figure why black doesn't take knight with king in second video.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at March 24, 2012 05:57 PM (deaac)

154 yeahhhh Booger

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 24, 2012 05:57 PM (vpe0k)

155 A good tip comes after the meal. If the cook screws it up, oh well.

Waiters and waitresses are the least skilled.

Posted by: Jimbo at March 24, 2012 05:58 PM (O3R/2)

156 I don't know if the narrator points it out, but the trap in the second game (Fischer-Reshevshy 195

wasn't invented by Fischer. He saw it in a game that had been published in a Russian magazine a few weeks before.

Posted by: Average Joe at March 24, 2012 05:59 PM (Tcv/L)

157 Pan down we want bush.

Posted by: booger at March 24, 2012 05:59 PM (GULKT)

158 164

Q moves next to pawn - Czechmate!

Posted by: Bobby Fischer at March 24, 2012 06:00 PM (2S8JC)

159 In France, waiters consider their jobs to be "professions"

That is right. Up there with Brain Surgeons.

Posted by: Jimbo at March 24, 2012 06:00 PM (O3R/2)

160 146 - What? I'm trying to watch MST3K, keep it down, gawd!

Posted by: Where's my pressie? at March 24, 2012 06:00 PM (X5Hwz)

161 Hey, guys -- Wonder Joints!

Posted by: Booger at March 24, 2012 06:00 PM (sTS/8)

162 Fischer probably did more than anyone to popularize chess in America. His triumph in the 1972 World Championship was a major battle in the Cold War. Seriously. Nobody today who isn't a chess fan has any idea how thoroughly the Soviets dominated the chess world during the 50s and 60s. Fischer's victory was almost like the U.S. hockey win in the 1980 Olympics. Sadly, it was pretty much downhill for him after that.

Posted by: rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012 at March 24, 2012 06:00 PM (sdi6R)

163 I always overtip unless they're terrible...they rarely are.

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 24, 2012 06:02 PM (vpe0k)

164

Posted by: rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012 at March 24, 2012 10:00 PM (sdi6R)

All kidding aside, seems to me I remember it being covered on ABC's Wide World of Sports.

And yes, it was big.

Posted by: HH at March 24, 2012 06:04 PM (KB0hv)

165 Holy smokes, Cheney had a heart transplant?!

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 24, 2012 06:04 PM (niZvt)

166 164 Still can't figure why black doesn't take knight with king in second video. I saw KxNe5 Qd4+ Kf4 but couldn't figure out what to do after that. Still, having the king right in the middle of the fucking board will almost always lead to DOOM.

Posted by: rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012 at March 24, 2012 06:04 PM (sdi6R)

167 Looks like they've upped the bounty amount.....

Video: New Black Panthers to offer one million for capture of George Zimmerman

From The Right Scoop

http://tinyurl.com/734levq

Posted by: Tami at March 24, 2012 06:05 PM (X6akg)

168 Ooops.....wrong thread.

Posted by: Tami at March 24, 2012 06:06 PM (X6akg)

169 NBP..if they want a war, let it begin...um, where?

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 24, 2012 06:07 PM (vpe0k)

170 I fail to see how this is at all related to pron. What? Oh, never mind.

Posted by: Boston12GS at March 24, 2012 06:07 PM (kJHCT)

171 right now i'm looking minnesota....and feelin' california!

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 06:08 PM (PWwbk)

172 Everybody jump the Queen. Gangbang!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 24, 2012 06:09 PM (4q5tP)

173 Ramsey practically begs to be hated, why stop him?

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 06:10 PM (PWwbk)

174 I saw KxNe5 Qd4+ Kf4 Should be KxNe6 Qd5+ Kf5. I seem to have misplaced a rank somewhere.

Posted by: rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012 at March 24, 2012 06:10 PM (sdi6R)

175 #179 - It's the same clip, just a little longer.

The speaker (who's definitely not local), sounds like an idiot.

Of course, I'm not determined to leap to judgement, and damn what facts may arise.

Posted by: Dianna at March 24, 2012 06:12 PM (mKMj1)

176 Is you is, or is you ain't, my constichency?

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 24, 2012 06:13 PM (vpe0k)

177 I'll just say go ahead and tongue the asshole of the sodomite princess all you want, but leave me out of it.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 06:16 PM (PWwbk)

178 Sorry, gotta go. USA's Night Flight is coming on...

Posted by: HH at March 24, 2012 06:16 PM (KB0hv)

179 Should be KxNe6 Qd5+ Kf5. I seem to have misplaced a rank somewhere.
Posted by: rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012 at March 24, 2012 10:10 PM (sdi6R)

pe6+

and it's over from there, it seems. I didn't do it on a board, so maybe I missed something.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 24, 2012 06:17 PM (X3lox)

180 What I can't grok is allowing myself to go down material like Fischer does. I can't see that far ahead.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 24, 2012 06:20 PM (Iyg03)

181 Back when I was playing, I used English notation. I've always considered algebraic notation to be "newfangled". Yes, that makes me an old fart.

Posted by: rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012 at March 24, 2012 06:24 PM (sdi6R)

182 192 Yeah, same here. Is there a video of his 1956 game against Donald Byrne, when Byrne was a master and Fischer was 13? That game was epic. Fischer sacrificed his queen, and then proceeded to take Byrne apart. There is no way in hell I would have ever seen that coming.

Posted by: rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012 at March 24, 2012 06:29 PM (sdi6R)

183 Thanks for the tip, rickl. Posted.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 24, 2012 06:44 PM (Iyg03)

184 I recently bought "Bobby Fischer: The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion" by Karsten Muller on Amazon. It's relaxing after a long day at work to go through one of Fischer's early games and watch the development of this phenomenal player, though I'm just what Bobby would call a "patzer".

Posted by: norrin radd at March 24, 2012 06:55 PM (O4VsS)

185 It's a good thing we don't think like Fisher, who wants to be a viscous anti-semite like he was.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 24, 2012 07:03 PM (GZitp)

186 Another favorite fisher game is the second match (it was the modern variation of the Sicilian defense). between Petrosian and Fisher, during the candidates tournament in Buenos Arias. Bobby just takes apart petrosians Q side through good use of an isolated pawn. Is anyone planing on watching the world championships? Anand v. Gelfand starting May 10!

Posted by: Rob at March 24, 2012 07:05 PM (XOtYi)

187 I myself go out of my way to be nice and generous to whoever I encounter in any restaurant, whether it's Burger King or an upscale Brazilian steakhouse.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 24, 2012 09:52 PM (PWwbk)

_______________________________

So do I, model _1066, but think for a minute of how f'ed up that is. Once upon a time, the wait staff knocked themselves out to be nice and generous to the customers because they hoped for a good tip. Now, you go to a restaurant and kowtow to the wait staff because if you don't, they might put spit or boogers in your food - food you're already paying top dollar for.

In other words, you and I have become restaurant dminnis.

Posted by: ExiledonMainStreet at March 24, 2012 07:05 PM (Kqlyz)

188 Jimbo: "Ramsey is a asshole that I would never want to work for. Talk about a 'hostile work environment.'"

The Gordon Ramsey Recipe for Success(ful TV Show):

1) Screen list of failing restaurants that suck.
2) Order some food; tell everyone it, and they, suck... while cursing. Spit out some food just to emphasize disgust.
3) Try to break everyone down by telling them how much they suck in as many ways as possible. Use curse words and smack hands.
4) Clean the kitchen while cursing prolifically.
5) Curse even more colorfully. Smack hands some more.
6) Introduce simple, fresh, local fare to menu. Tell everyone how much the new plan doesn't suck. Smack hands.
7) Purchase some goodwill by bribing the staff/owner with new tablecloths and a coat of paint.

Reopen the restaurant with overwhelming clientele, but curse positively. Smack hands, but in a good way.
9) Tell everyone they're starting to suck again because they're so goddamned slow or are taking a piss. Walk outside, talk to the camera, and smack hands.
10) Summarize that the crew finally got its shit together and made profit for the first time in over a year despite the suckitude.
11) Threaten to come back.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 24, 2012 07:08 PM (eHIJJ)

189 170 In France, waiters consider their jobs to be "professions"

That is right. Up there with Brain Surgeons. ________________________________________________ The thing is, because they consider themselves professionals, they try to do a good job. Unlike the waiters I encountered in NYC, who are all sure they're going to be Academy Award winners some day, so why should they care if your meal arrives a half hour late? No, waiters aren't up there with brain surgeons. There's something to be said, though, for people who treat their "lowly" jobs with seriousness instead as just a petty waystation until something better comes along.

Posted by: ExiledonMainStreet at March 24, 2012 07:17 PM (Kqlyz)

190 197 Fischer's mother was Jewish, which made him Jewish as well. But she was also a Communist sympathizer, so he was essentially a red diaper baby. That's bound to lead to problems. He was a chess genius of the first order, but otherwise was a mess. The Wikipedia entry gives the details of Fischer's unusual childhood. I defy anybody to emerge sane from that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer

Posted by: rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012 at March 24, 2012 07:19 PM (sdi6R)

191

"Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don't know that the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
Show with everything but Yul Brynner

Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
All change -- don't you know that when you
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue"

Sorry, obligatory in a chess thread.

Posted by: 66chevelle at March 24, 2012 07:19 PM (QjSgY)

192 Thanks, rd, for putting that game up!

Posted by: rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012 at March 24, 2012 07:22 PM (sdi6R)

193 Thank you. What a smack down.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 24, 2012 07:30 PM (Iyg03)

194 It's a typical "Ruy Lopez" opening against the "Sicilian defense accelerated dragon version"

This makes no sense. You either play the Ruy Lopez or the Sicilian defense accelerated dragon ~~version~~variation, not both.

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 24, 2012 07:34 PM (xm1A1)

195 Holy smokes, Cheney had a heart transplant?!

He probably put it in himself.

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 24, 2012 07:36 PM (xm1A1)

196

LMAO @ IllTemperedCur. The shaving the Queens armpits, brandishing a crucifix at a can of Right Guard and the French King retiring in 3 moves! I was laughing so hard my eyes were tearing up. Upon deeper thought, the French love hairy armpits, would never allow anything with the word "right" into the country to be threatened with and you are being generous with allowing the King 3 moves before ordering a retreat.

Posted by: middle-america at March 24, 2012 07:44 PM (bm3dD)

197 Fischer was most likely poisoned by the KGB with pscych drugs shortly after teh 1972 Spassky match. He was never the same.

Posted by: blogforce one at March 24, 2012 07:47 PM (7cXfH)

198 if Kxe6, q-d5, kf5, g4+ Kxg4,Qf3+Kh4, h3, h5, qg3#

Posted by: blogforce one at March 24, 2012 07:53 PM (7cXfH)

199 Fischer was most likely poisoned by the KGB with pscych drugs shortly after teh 1972 Spassky match. He was never the same.

Heh. I think it more likely that whatever incentive Fischer had for keeping his inner demons in check evaporated after he became World Champion, since in his mind he had nothing left to prove. So he let them out and they just sort of took over and ran his life for the rest of his life.

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 24, 2012 07:54 PM (xm1A1)

200 He loved chess. to him, the 64 squares WAS his life. KGB did extensive lab work on political prisoners for many years prior to the 1972 match and it was a MAJOR blow to the Soviet system when Fischer won the match. He had to be neutralized at all cost. The probability of Bobby Fischer, (U.S.A.) being world chess champion for the next 20 years was too much to take.

Posted by: blogforce one at March 24, 2012 08:05 PM (7cXfH)

201 I can't believe how he hammered down on that guy at 13.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 24, 2012 08:48 PM (Iyg03)

202 Saw that movie about Bobby Fischer and it's excellent, lots of footage of Fischer. What a nut case! Had the fillings removed from his teeth due to messages being sent to him. Refused to see doctors, leading to his (relatively) early death. Still think the US Govt was partly to blame, threatening to throw him in prison for years for playing chess just because it's leader was a criminal. Go to prison for playing a board game. No wonder he hated America in his later years.

Posted by: waelse1 at March 24, 2012 09:18 PM (VaU8E)

203

197
"Fischer's mother was Jewish, which made him Jewish as well."

__________________________________

Actually, his dad was probably a Jewish physicist mom had an affair with - so the notoriously anti-Semitic Fischer was Jewish on both sides.

Both the brilliance and the extreme eccentricity and anti-social behavior were inherited.

Posted by: ExiledonMainStreet at March 24, 2012 09:19 PM (Kqlyz)

204 Oddly enough, Geller is one of the few players with a plus score against Fischer for his career.

The second game isn't a "Ruy Lopez opening" - which is the Spanish Game to most of the world - it's a Sicilian. The two are mutually exclusive since they involve different first moves for Black.

Fischer never played the French Defense in a serious game, but he did have a lot of trouble with it, particularly the Winawer Variation ( 1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 Bb4) because of its messy complications. For all his renown as an attacker, Fischer liked above all positions with clear strategical goals. Most of his attacks weren't the result of some wild aggressive play, but rather of having outplayed the opponent and achieved the best squares for his own pieces.

Posted by: Dead White Men at March 25, 2012 01:54 AM (VfmLu)

205 I'm "zungz" on chess.com if any morons wanna play!

Posted by: 2big2fail at March 25, 2012 05:37 AM (kYJAf)

206 Actually, his dad was probably a Jewish physicist mom had an affair with

Actually, his dad was probably an Hungarian mathematician his mom had an affair with. Somebody actually wrote a book about this, tracking down Fischer's real father. The book has a photo of this Hungarian dude, Bobby looks just like him.

Posted by: OregonMuse at March 25, 2012 07:09 AM (OgNT1)

207 217 I've never heard of chess.com before. (goes to check it out) . OMG. . Sadly, I think my brain is too atrophied to be of much use to me now. I wish I'd found that site, oh, 30 years ago.

Posted by: rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012 at March 25, 2012 08:24 AM (sdi6R)

208 I used to play at chess.com in the 90's. I think that's what it was called.

Sadly, I'm one of those who knows just enough to be able to appreciate how little I know and good the masters are.

Same thing with guitar, btw. The better I got, the more I realized how great the greats are.

It's like the cliche reverse telescoping zoom shot in the movies (whatever they call that thing): The closer you get, the farther away things become.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 25, 2012 10:21 AM (Iyg03)

209 Geller was one of the GMs who had a winning record against Fischer. But in this game he got smashed. One of the worst beatings ever administered to a soviet GM by a western player at the time. At one point during the game, Fischer wrote "geller spent 20 minutes studying the position and then stopled looking happy." priceless.

Posted by: Fasterplease at March 25, 2012 11:24 AM (UiwIl)

210 Geller was one of the GMs who had a winning record against Fischer. But in this game he got smashed. One of the worst beatings ever administered to a soviet GM by a western player at the time. At one point during the game, Fischer wrote "geller spent 20 minutes studying the position and then stopped looking happy." priceless.

Posted by: Fasterplease at March 25, 2012 11:38 AM (UiwIl)

211 Wow this is soo helpful I have been trying to figure this out on my own for a long time now. Hopefully making this change will help encourage discussion on my blog.

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