Bobby Fischer

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Robert James Fischer (born 1943), popularly known as Bobby Fischer, was the only American to become World Chess Champion when he defeated Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky in a 1972 match in Iceland. He forfeited his title to Anatoly Karpov in 1975 when he refused to defend his title. He did not play chess again until 1992, when he played a return match in Yugoslavia in violation of American sanctions on Yugoslavia. Fischer became known for making anti-Semitic and anti-American remarks in the media over the next ten years, most notoriously his praise of the September 11, 2001 attacks. This cost him his membership in the United States Chess Federation (USCF), which has since been restored. This is generally viewed as symbolic, since Fischer not only does not play chess anymore, but is also not welcome in the United States. In 2004, Fischer was arrested in Japan, and has since taken asylum in Iceland.

Fischer has claimed that "chess is dead" and is unlikely to ever play traditional chess again. He currently is promoting a form of "shuffle chess" called Fischerandom, in which the opening position is randomized.

Anti-Semitism

Robert J. Fischer in 2005.

Even though Fischer himself is half-Jewish (on his mother's side), he often sign his name as “Robert James”, eliminating the racially ambiguous “Fischer.”, and has demanded to be excised from a Jewish encyclopedia. According to Grand Master Larry Evans, Fischer has once told him that he admired Hitler because "he imposed his will on the world". At a 1992 press conference, Bobby Fischer called communism, rightly enough, “a mask for Bolshevism,” but he then stunned his audience by calling Bolshevism “a mask for Judaism.” In January 14, 1999, during an interview on Filipino radio, Bobby Fischer said, “You know they [Jews] invented the Holocaust story. There’s no such. There was no Holocaust of the Jews in World War II.” When asked what he wished to do with the remainder of his life, he answered “[T]o expose the Jews for the criminals they are, the parasites they are, the liars they are, the thieves they are, the niggers they are .... Jews were always bastards throughout history. They are liars, they are the worst pieces of shit in the world. They mutilate their own children.” As for the United States, Bobby called it “a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards.” In another interview on Filipino radio on March 10, 1999, Bobby declared: “[P]eople don’t know this but it’s absolute fact Jews murder Christian children for their blood and they’re doing it even today they kill the kids ritually they drain the blood out of the children while they’re still alive ... just like they kill animals ... they do the most terrible tortures on like the boys they circumcise the boy’s they’ll put a crown of thorns on his head and then blindfold him slap him in the face all mocking the sufferings of Christ and after they take all the blood of the child and he dies they use this blood for their black magic ceremonies one of the things they do with his blood is they mix it into this Passover bread ... they eat it ... when they celebrate the Passover they’re eating the children’s human blood.” Bobby Fischer has also admitted to belief in “giant conspiracy of the Jewish world government.” Yet, despite, Bobby Fischer's openly anti-Semitic remarks, he has several close Jewish friends. According to the American Jewish master Ron Gross: "Bobby says we’re all victims of the conspiracy".

References

Is Bobby Fischer Anti-Semitic?, Larry Parr, May 8, 2001