Bobby’s end game
January 19, 2008Bobby Fischer is dead at 64. Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber gets it right (”Bobby Fischer“), I think:
Maybe [it's] a generational thing. If you were of the right age—and I was 13 in the summer of 1972—then what you’ll remember is something different. The daily drama in Reykjavík stretched over months, the odd young American taking on the the Russians at their game, and millions of people taking an interest in chess for the first time. I think about… picking up the paper and trying to follow what had happened the previous day, and why. A strange talent who belongs forever in 1972, not since.
