Interesting!
Article "Was It Only a Game?" by Dick Cavett on Bobby Fischer,
plus a video of Cavett's 1971 interview of Fischer, a year before he won
the world championship!
http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/was-it-only-a-game/?ref=opinion.
Kevin Korsmo appointed to Washington Court of Appeals
– See article in the Spokane Spokesman-Review, "New
appeals judge knows way around chessboard."
GM Yasser Seirawan video,
explaining why he created S-Chess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nht2TqabPr0.
Seirawan Chess
kits and matching Marshall sets and boards are available for sale!
Prices are: S-chess kit (two elephants and two hawks): $10.00; matching
Marshall sets and boards: $50.00. You can see photos at
http://www.seirawanchess.com/advantages.html.
If you'd like to buy one, please contact Bruce Harper at
bruce@seirawanchess.com.
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer, 1943-2008 – One of
the world's greatest chess geniuses, Bobby Fischer, died at the age of
64, according to Icelandic national TV and radio.
Fischer spokesman Gardar Sverrisson said the former world chess champion died in
a Reykjavik hospital on January 17. The US-born former world chess
player, who became famous around the world for beating the Soviet
Union's Boris Spassky in 1972, had been seriously ill for some time. In
the words of former WCF president Kent McNall, "This fills me with
sadness. I remember so clearly the TIME magazine cover in my doctor's
office as a kid. Bobby Fischer made me want to play chess, and I've done
so my whole life because of him. I grew to believe he was not sane in
later life – and for that reason I did not hold him responsible for the
terrible things he said. To me, he'll always be a tragic genius ... but
one of my heroes in life." Well said, Kent. Also, here's an
excellent piece by King County Councilman Bob Ferguson about Fischer
which appeared in the January 24 edition of The Seattle Times:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2004141350_bobbyfischer24.html?syndication=rss.
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