Meno_ wrote:Back about 30 years ago, yikes, 40, saw Bobby Fisher play in Santa Monica.
Then followed his career. Remember when he was homeless in Los Angeles
then when he got a million bucks for defying the president by going to Belgrade to play a championship, then to the Phillippines and married there for a while, then to Budapest staying with a woman national champion, then finally to Iceland dying there, Iceland being the only country that have him asylum.
He was near the most highly rated player, his mom or was a Hungarian immigrant.
He was not a happy human being, his life excluded anything but the game.
An interesting bio, it appears.l to be, of a troubled grand master.
Saw earlier that you said you were a junior master. Don't find it hard to believe.
, everything just popped, mind you the guy did throw away his queen for a rook for no real reason I could see.
My worst times are usually weekends, I can drop 100 points sometimes. Then build back up in the week. The ratings are not always a great indicator I think. The 1600+ players are often better than the 1700+ I think because some of them play more, once over 1750 I wonder if there aren't a lot of people who've plateaued out and try to sit on their laurels getting rusty.
