nelson@cvl.UUCP (Randal Nelson) (06/13/85)
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)zben@umd5.UUCP (06/19/85)
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
gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins) (06/21/85)
> 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
levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) (06/22/85)
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.