Prisoner in 64 squares, the story of Bobby Fischer
a film about the most famous chess player in history, Bobby Fischer, reveals the narrow line that separates the intellectual superiority of insanity and unhappiness
The great geniuses are often eccentric and, given its unusual intelligence, it is impossible to know what goes through your mind. One was Bobby Fischer, perhaps the best chess player of the twentieth century.
The IQ of Bobby Fischer (1943-2008) was higher than Albert Einstein. But the most famous chess player in history, whose education left much to be desired, was also mentally ill. The film The Fischer case in Mexico called the move Maestra, in attempts to illuminate the dark border between genius and madness. But dissect such an explosive character in 114 minutes borders on the impossible.
Bobby Fischer, born in 1943, became the World Chess Champion for 29 years, although from the 13 winning national tournaments in the United States, mixing his genius and love for the game, with a high IQ that reached 187 points.
the story of Fischer might have been like a chess genius, but given his controversial life and shares, which ended with the revocation of citizenship and life in exile, made him a true legend
his childhood was very troubled, but the film tiptoes on that stage, perhaps the key development of the disease. Hungarian eminent physicist Paul Nemenyi, who worked at the University of Iowa recommendation Einstein often visited New York to Bobby and his mother, Regina, who had a child as “a friend”.
Nemenyi had spent years sending money Regina would not have to return to the hospice where she had spent time with her baby after sending his daughter, Joan, to her parents’ house.
Nemenyi died (heart attack) eight days before Bobby fulfilled nine years, which was very traumatic for the child: only then he knew that “friend Paul” was his real father, which Regina hid to not be stigmatized for their extramarital affairs. The official father, German Gerhardt Fischer, could never enter the United States, because of their nationality and their “communist connections”.
Fischer, who went to school until the age of 14 but with the mind always absorbed in the chess, spent many hours alone at home during his childhood analyzing games because Joan (five years older), returned later and his mother moonlighting barely have time to attend to them.
Regina, born in Switzerland, had lived in Germany and in Paris, he studied medicine in Moscow (where he met Gerhardt, father of Joan) before moving to the United States. Bobby was born in Chicago, but Fischer often changed residence and State, brushing several times destitution. This was assisted by Regina was monitored for 30 years by the FBI, suspected communist.
His record, 900 pages, said it was “gifted, hyperactive, but nonpsychotic paranoid, unable to control his son.” He worked as a teacher, nurse and medical, among other tasks. Several testimonies agree that was very concerned about the obsession with Bobby and even took him to a psychiatrist, who sent the matter airily: “. Do not worry There are far worse than chess obsessions”.
once became World Chess Champion, he never defended his title because he refused to play with someone who is less than him, so he retired from competitive game for 20 years.
In these two decades wrote books, joined a cult, held demonstrations of racist hatred and against the policy of his country and became an important goal by the FBI.
in 1992 agreed to play a match in Yugoslavia, this despite the ban by the United States. After winning, he never returned to his country and accused of treason, his arrest and then remove the nationality requested
His last decades of life were a mystery. Many said they played chess against Bobby Fischer online but they never existed evidence.
becoming World Chess Champion in 1972 was not only a personal achievement, but for the United States meant a victory in the Cold War it had with the Soviet Union. The championship Bobby Fischer against Boris Spassky, was considered a battle between the two countries, which was held in Iceland, neutral ground for both.
The confrontation comprised 24 parties and the champion would be one more win games. Fischer put all kinds of obstacles and conditions to play, even did not show the second game as he considered cheating was done with the presence of TV cameras. The games resumed behind closed doors and after only 21 games, the Russian gave up giving the victory to the US.
A US victory over the Soviet Union, which made Bobby Fischer a celebrity and national hero, putting the country of Uncle Sam over the Russians for the first time since the nineteenth century in terms chess, just a game that started as a way to prepare for war.
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