Former greats

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4 total messages Started by Randal Nelson Thu, 13 Jun 1985 20:49

#804

Author: Randal Nelson
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1985 20:49

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Does anyone know whatever happened to Bobby Fischer
(the John Mc-Enroe of chess) after he lost the title by default?
Is he a writer for a respected chess periodical?
Is he loading docks somewhere?

Just nosy
                                   Randal Nelson
                                   (nelson@cvl)

Re: Former greats

#810

Author: zben
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1985 21:40

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In article <543@cvl.UUCP> nelson@cvl.UUCP (Randal Nelson) writes:
>
>Does anyone know whatever happened to Bobby Fischer
>(the John Mc-Enroe of chess) after he lost the title by default?
>Is he a writer for a respected chess periodical?
>Is he loading docks somewhere?
>
Last I heard he had gotten mixed up with a fundamentalist Christian commune
and was doing farm work, poor guy.  Seems like as good a way to recover from
burnout as any...  Anybody else heard anything?

By the way, the regulars in all those newsgroups mentioned above will probably
not like this.  Is there any easy way to restrict the discussion to net.chess
only?  Would it have worked if I had edited the header while building this
followup?
-- 
Ben Cranston  ...{seismo!umcp-cs,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben  zben@umd2.ARPA

Re: Former greats

#811

Author: Gregory J.E. Rawlins
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1985 07:01

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> In article <543@cvl.UUCP> nelson@cvl.UUCP (Randal Nelson) writes:
> >Does anyone know whatever happened to Bobby Fischer
> >[..]
> Last I heard he had gotten mixed up with a fundamentalist Christian commune
> and was doing farm work, poor guy.  Seems like as good a way to recover from
> burnout as any...  Anybody else heard anything?

	The rumours doing the rounds among the 2300+ players i know
are that he is now living from hand to mouth with no fixed place
of address. There exists a woman who gets all his mail but i've
forgotten all the details. He is said to be afraid of Russian 
assassins and is essentially vagrant. He is possibly (mildly?)
psychotic. the stuff about the fundamentalist christian sect is
true. Please remember this is all PURE RUMOUR.
  
> By the way, the regulars in all those newsgroups mentioned above will probably
> not like this.  Is there any easy way to restrict the discussion to net.chess
> only?  Would it have worked if I had edited the header while building this
> followup?
> -- 
> Ben Cranston  ...{seismo!umcp-cs,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben  zben@umd2.ARPA

	Yes.  (;-)

		Greg.
-- 
Gregory J.E. Rawlins, Department of Computer Science, U. Waterloo
{allegra|clyde|linus|inhp4|decvax}!watmath!watdaisy!gjerawlins

Re: Former greats

#812

Author: Daniel R. Levy
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1985 22:37

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article <543@cvl.UUCP>:
>not like this.  Is there any easy way to restrict the discussion to net.chess
>only?  Would it have worked if I had edited the header while building this
>followup?
>-- 
>Ben Cranston  ...{seismo!umcp-cs,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben  zben@umd2.ARPA

Yes, if you edit the Newsgroups: line in the header, you can delete (or add)
groups which will receive your message.  For example, this should only be seen
in net.chess.

Here's Hacking,
Dan Levy
AT&T Teletype Corp.
Skokie, Ill.

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