Bobby Fischer and his Dubrovnik chess set 

Like literally any other great master before the year 2000 ;)

@@fundhund62 he beat Larsen and Taimanov 6-0. He wasn't like " any other great master ".

@@clayishamoeba2 and he also did it without a coach. and thats why He is the GOAT

@@fundhund62 'any other great masters' were mentored by great teachers. Also they had team to analysis games. Fischer did all things alone. All by himself.

Which is the same as all great chess players do. The role of computers today is completely overstated.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

kasparov moves them way more rythemic

+bunny dhanush You can't even spell. shut up

The Business how lame u are, u ugly bitch

You only say that because it's Bobby Fischer

I miss m so much, every time I play chess and every chess board I buy I see his face, his story is extraordinary and so extremely sad at the same time, bought my last board in Poland....

Yes and off the board he spoke truth.

@@tonyedward6909 He was a genius at the chessboard, but outside of it he said many stupid things, come on. He was not in the best mental state, I think most people would agree.

@@tonyedward6909 absolutely!!!

@@robertochighine2478 if they can't discredit you by calling you insane, if they can't quiet you by freezing your money and or livelihood , if imprisonment does not stop you from speaking truth to power, then they kill you, Bobby predicted his own death most likely he was poisoned.

I don't think love was what he was looking for when he played

Yeah I don't think he was looking for love. He spent too much time practicing and not enough time sparring with other players.

Kenneth bucsko you're a very good chess teacher.

True. He had later said chess players don't love each other. It's a bad crowd. Artists have better friendship

@@mumble97 there weren't too many at his level who would spend much time with him on this. The ussr on the other hand has schools teams of players who were being paid by the state

You flattered all us immigrants. Underserved compliment.

After 6 yrs of consisting play I myself was amazed as well haha. He moves the pieces so smooth

That's actually normal if you play and analyse a lot of chess OTB, especially back in the pre-computer days. The Karpov-Kasparov Lyon 1990 televised analysis also features Kasparov doing that stuff, also for pawns on opposing sides e.g. cxd4 exd4, just remove the c and e pawns. Rook captures typically involve removing the rooks facing a particular square e.g. for Rxd8 Rxd8, just leave the d8 piece and have the capturing rooks evacuate the board. Tons of 'premove' shortcuts like that.

There is no way to remove the c-pawn. Queen and knight are guarding the d-pawn. The reason why Fischer took away the c-pawn as far i understand was: to present a theory (which neither you or i know , because we would need the context of that particular game), to say: he would have checkmated the guy if there wasnt a c-pawn there.

@@PygmalionFaciebatYou can see 1. cxd4, cxd4. It didn't get removed it recaptured on d4 after blacks pawn took on d4.

He had renal issues that affects mental behavior. Probably if he didn’t have renal issues he wouldn’t have had mental behavioral issues.

He clearly doesnt know enough mentally ill people to believe this.

igloo productions Is the 960 chess really that interesting? I love chess but I find that it requires a lot of time and memorization to improve as a player. Thank you

E.S. Slc It's more fun because you are thinking from move 1, and it requires NO memorization, as there is no opening theory (except for position #580 which is the classical position). I've been playing strictly 960 for almost 3 years and I'd never go back to playing just the classical position. A good site to play 960 is lichess.

Thank you for the quick response. I usually play on chess.com and they have a "960" options as well. I will try and see how it goes.

One more question. If I play it with someone in person how do we generate our starting position? Do we just agree on one and start?

E.S. Slc Yes I play live 960 on chess.com too, but I find on lichess.org it's way faster to get a game. About the starting position; as you know online this is just randomly chosen. I've never played 960 in real life but it's also randomly chosen in tournaments, or casually you can just agree on a position. That's part of the fun of it I guess.

by not having played enough chess he meant games outside the torunaments or friendly games

Bad Jaeaux I

Actually only about 600 games in tournaments

Or perhaps he would have murdered the family.

+Adnan Bosnjak Paranoid schizofrenia is the definition of madness.

Adnan Bosnjak Are you trolling, stupid or just uneducated? Watch some documentaries about Bobby.

YES. ANOTHER NATIONAL SOCIALIST AT LAST

hard to say when that split-personality took over very sad but bill remember all he did for chess,best ever imho

I can imagine he starting to study to beat stockfish

@Siddhant Satao who would crush who?

@Siddhant Satao agreed!

@@Maltebyte2 wait are you joking?

@@EIIlast2791 Maybe not if you let the software think for a long time! he would have learnt alot!

TALbol tiež génius.

Yeah. And both died crazy.

@@robsmalls9656 Steinitz as well

they were both geniouses and both transcended talents in their own ways. while morphy was just the anomaly that is so good that he has to retire because no one can even compare with him as to how much of a gap he sets among all other players , on the other hand fischer is the kind of genious that is obsessed with the game to the point where he has so much potential and ability that he starts to love and hate it at the same time. truly 2 of the most potential and talented players in the whole chess history

He had understandable reasons for being bitter...do some research...nurture some empathy and you will understand where his anger came from...

Johnny Pastrana i think, most famous people who are super successful at what they do have some sort of family problems

Not really any illness. Just high IQ and social skills lacking.

@@johnnypastrana6727 he literally quoted the video. Pay attention...do some listening...and you will understand where his comment came from. Asshole.

They are making one with Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer, it's called Pawn Sacrifice. Look into it.

@@user-ns9xm4gn1j As stated before the 1972 World Championship Match, Bobby Fischer had never defeated Boris Spassky with three wins and two draws. This information is available online refer to: chessgames.com

they're not "gossip and rumors" the man was a anti-semite, and there is plenty of video and audio clips to support this. He totally lost his mind in his 20's. the ones that knew him best spoke out about him, calling him totally insane. It's just a shame he wasn't treated medically. we still have so much to learn from such a beautiful mind.

Cliff Yablonski interesting story, must have been a terrible shock for a 10 year old child....thanks for sharing.

that's because they don't really know anything about chess

@Niranjan Rajesh Knocking the pieces over like that to a kid is normal? Severe arrogance, yes he was an asshole, thats just one example, and the countless other selfish things he did, especially in the match with Spassky.

@@kasparov937 says the guy who is a fan of kasparov...

He was also old so he wasn’t thinking straight

unkown don’t apologize for an insane person, he was paranoid about Jews and conspiracies all his life for practically no reason

@@a4h426 traumas due to his parents I suppose

@@a4h426 who runs the world Banks

Fischer was right about everything both over the board and under the sun

You are wrong. The 1950 knights are different.

The 1970 set has a knight that is stout and the bishops head are wider. In the 1950 set, like the one in the video, clearly the knight is taller and the bishops head are thinner.

John Jabroni ***** John is right. The knight looks clearly like the 1950 version sold here : www.noj.si/?mod=catalog&action=productDetails&ID=181. Then you simply have to check the Dubrovnik II version on the same website to see that the knight head is different and the bishop head wider.

Franck Tafani Yes, the bishops are narrow, but the Fischer's Queen only has five cuts in the crown. The knight looks 70-ish to me, sorry. I believe the confusion can be explained by inconsistency in production of commercially available low cost Dubrovnik sets in the seventies.

Are 2 set's on this video , 1950 and 1970 version: prntscr.com/5lok9r

What do you mean someone destroyed all his books? Could you explain that?

@@joaofelipechertouh4561 later in his life he couldn't afford to pay the rent and his stuff was robbed and sold because of that.

Yea there are actually quite a bit of those sets in random European homes. Some people have them because they inherited them without knowing how valuable they are.

That's what I want to know. Wins title then disappears. WHY?????

Maybe that is what he meant, if you see his games much later in his life "online games" you will see again that greatness, maybe he just retired so he can play chess, it doesent make to much sense but neither does Fischer

you re dead idiot

If Im dead why are you trying to talk to me = )

Is this real fischer?

Yes because being anti semitic is okay

@@Bckner Just because you don't agree with someone it doesn't mean they're nuts or crazy.

@@thebigpicture2455 youre crazy if you hate a group of people just because of their beliefs and traditions. Stop supporting anti semitism

What's troll about the music? Have you seen the documentary it comes from?

She retired from competition but he continued playing chess alone as he did as a kid.

Dexter Haven He meant to play more chess by playing against himself, he'd play the white moves, the black moves... until he checkmates the 'other' guy. That's a world champion vs world champion, fischer should have kept a record of those games and sold it to the world, games full with annotations - no computer assistance, just pure genius.

corkystorky You don't know he meant that. You made it up. If he meant that he would have said it or said practice chess, silly. Not nice to assert interpolation or speculation as fact.

We know the 'facts' yes Fischer left the chess world and isolated himself to play against himself. He did not even bother to think about 'defending' the title against Karpov, and instead made great conditions such as a bottle of fresh baby blood so that the showdown will not go its course. That's who fischer was, until later in 1992 he realized he needed money to live, and insisted he was the legitimate world champion and not kasparov.

corkystorky You forgot that when he played aginst himself, he lost most of those games, so his cofnidence was sapped before 1975.

Look at the great painters.

He was just mad? If a completely deceived and blind society judges like this, then he must have been extraordinarily wise and insightful (although eccentric). And that is exactly what he was. You still have no idea what you are talking about!

There is no genius without a touch of madness - Seneca

Background sound was from Bobby Fischer against the world

I realize of course that you wrote ''at the chessboard'' in regard to Fischer's ''sportsmanship'', but in fairness, his blatant gamesmanship during the 1972 World Chess Championship during which he walked right past Spassky (without acknowledging Spassky) when Fischer first arrived at the playing auditorium in Iceland, failed to show up for Game#2, demanded that the rest of the games in the match be played in the back room away from the audience and TV cameras, demanded that the TV cameras be turned off during the match, etc., was deplorable and very unsportsmanlike.

this is true ! and most GMs are simular. look at Kasparov, he acted like he was playing an online game with no one else in the room haha he'd walk around, make weird faces and noises haha. just real focused on the game.

@@7Lukibi99Tore7 You forgot to mention getting rid of rows of audience seats multiple times.

@@kasparov937 u should write a book about your hero, the one and only rj fischer.

He simply needed one of two things: a good wife or a good agent. 😆 The latter being easier to find than the former.

The highest tournament elo rating score is Fabiano Caruana 8,5/10 StLouis elo 3080! Karpov 11/13 Linares 1994 elo score 3040! Alekhine in San Remo 1930 elo score 3040! Fischer and Kasparov their Best tournament scores only 2990!

NPC

lol

A sharp judge beats them all.

Spassky's games.

Fischer did.

Jonas Žnidaršič I thought for championship or tournament play (when it was possible) he preferred the Jacques. Maybe he preferred Jacques only for that though because he wouldn't want to scratch up a nice Jacques during analysis.

It’s wasn’t so much the aesthetics it was the feel and how the pieces were so balanced. If you always had to be precise and gentle moving the pieces then the set isn’t practical eg useless.

It looks like a vinyl mat. I used to have one, and it simply rolls up, and you can place it in a cardboard tube.

Above all, humans tend to not handle the truth very well. In fact they even hate it. And they despise those who want to tell them about it. Bobby may habe been saved, this world will is lost and will be judged, and is in fact now on the verge of it - of course without wanting to notice it, as always. Bobby already knew decades ago what he was talking about, although he didn't know enough to be accurately right in all details.

It sure is! Conveniently rolls up, and fits nicely in a cardboard tube. I used to travel with the same set.

Yes a match with Kasparov would have been close, Garry would have created alot of problems for Bobby as he was much stronger than anything he ever faced. As for Stokfish and Alpha Zero they would destroy him, in a 100 game match I doubt he could get even 1 win, they're much stronger than he was.

"I feel I haven't played enough chess"

@@rosemariebeneventi1041 after destroying the Soviet chess machine....u say u haven't played enough chess....🙄🙄 Seriously? Bobby??

@@anirbansarkar6027 I'll answer you with another's comment: "For those confused when he said, "I dont feel like i played enough chess" he was referring to playing more GAMES, SIMULS, PROVIDING INSTRUCTION, etc. That is very different from locking yourself in your room and going over master games, variation or studying. I think he just wanted to share the game with others more. He liked being alone but us humans are social animals. Everyone needs love. "

***** It really is, in the future when computers get way better, they'll be able to tell the best chess move, maybe e4 , e4 ,Nf3 , or c4 , everyone will start playing it, and eventually the draw percentage of game will go up way much making chess so boring. The only thing chess will need then is a good memory to memorize the computers lines, just like theory, where now 20 moves are already made up. Just makes the game more fun if it was in the 1900's when computers didn't exist and it would all be hard work to become a great chess player. That's why there's so many of these kid prodigies because of computers if computers didn't exist I expect to see atleast half of them won't be able to get their success in atleast an extra few years.

Nothing lasts forever. Chess is actually a poor game from an international hyper competitive standpoint. It's a world championship between two genetic freaks of nature and the result is usually totally predictable. The same is true in Boxing, but Boxing at least has action and excitement for the viewers...compared to a 4 hour chess match. It really ought to have remained a sporadic pastime between gentlemen. It was twisted into a sport in the 20th century but it was never comfortable there.

That's why we also play blitz. Just yesterday we had commentary on the best players playing in Paris.

How so? You think you can become a grandmaster now?

Iodine KOTH actually computers are helping to revive chess.

no, he´s reading hamlet! lol, no offense he was indeed reproducing matches or either studying variants

Juan Bautista Petrini LOL I SAY THIS BEACAUSE he critic the theory books

gabriel Gg I believe he was reading a book of games played by Spassky. He was preparing for the World Championship Match. Heard this from the 60 minutes special about Fischer.

No. He was reading BUKOWSKI.

Hes likely playing through Russian games... very often soviet collections.

Weltgescheite des schach- german out of print. Some still available used.

lmao