Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer Gives a Crash Lesson In Chess | The Dick Cavett Show

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Chess grandmaster and champion Bobby Fischer gives Dick Cavett a quick crash course lesson in chess.
What's your favorite chess opening?♟️
Date aired - August 4th, 1972 - The Rolling Stones
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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@JeguePerneta 16 дней назад

Him saying he'd shorten the time control of the World Championship for mainstream crowds shows he was truly ahead of his time.

@boztos6025 Год назад

Bobby at his peak is one of the most captivating people I’ve ever seen.

@huntersingle 5 месяцев назад

I agree. It’s better than the World Series watching and listening to the grandmaster.

@bevs9995 3 месяца назад

his whole career was his peak

@chinookr7259 28 дней назад

His horrific anti semitic views were his down side.

@bevs9995 28 дней назад

@@chinookr7259 nahh.. he was right the whole time. look whats going on now

@coolhundred21 Год назад

I like how Fisher was very short with all the open ended questions Cavett asked him, but when he jokingly asked how chess works, Fisher immediately took it and gave a full explanation

@bobby7844 10 месяцев назад

That's not what happened. The show follows a rough script. Bobby knew before the show what questions he was being asked, and he also knew he was there to give a chess lesson. So he prepared for the lesson and gave it.

@stormatime9426 3 месяца назад

@@bobby7844 anything 😂

@timetraveler_0 3 месяца назад

Well his life was nothing but chess. When you talk to people about things they like, they tend to keep talking.

@namelessfire 8 месяцев назад

Fischer handles Chess pieces like they owe him money.

@Ori-lp2fm 2 месяца назад

Consider to what he was they were

@AFMMarcelD 2 месяца назад

@@Ori-lp2fmHu?

@inktag9190 9 месяцев назад

8:26 The way he moves the pieces is so amazing!! especially the knights!!

@dieterrosswag933 4 месяца назад

Skilled hand and fingers

@abhaytyagi6179 Месяц назад

Ladies must've loved him

@babyshambler Год назад

His movements when he's shifting the pieces around the board remind me of a jazz drummer.

@boztos6025 Год назад

Would love to see all of Bobby’s interviews. They’re absolutely incredible.

@Grundig305 5 месяцев назад

Remember watching this very show in 1972. Bobby was quite a character.

@zachhaywood1564 8 месяцев назад

I'm always fascinated by how he moves the pieces.

@shivaji856 8 месяцев назад

This is a conversation with a legend.

@razen4758 2 месяца назад

which one? the host or Fisher?

@spy1965 Месяц назад

@@razen4758 Or Duncan

@toddventura7191 5 месяцев назад

Hahahah just throwing those pieces on the ground whilst remembering the position. What a boss!

@hollaatshaun1121 Год назад

This made me insanely happy to watch

@scottodonnell7121 Год назад

I watched this with my brother when it was first shown. We both loved his confidence and swagger. Plus he was very nice answering the other guests questions. We knew there was no way he would lose to Spassky

@hollaatshaun1121 Год назад

@@scottodonnell7121 do you still play?

@scottodonnell7121 Год назад

@@hollaatshaun1121 online a little. I'm getting old, not as sharp as I used to be.

@hollaatshaun1121 Год назад

@@scottodonnell7121 I love that you’ve gotten to play so long. I’m relatively young and one of my favorite parts about chess is the idea of how long I’ll be able to maintain this hobby. Best of luck on the board and in life to you

@yassinemessaoud8619 Год назад

anything with Bobby Fischer in is a blessing

@hammondvoodoo9555 7 месяцев назад

Sandy Duncan represented the public view on chess really well - not understanding that it's a demanding sport. Nobody in the US would have asked a football or baseball player if he did something on the side (like a regular job or something), even if they could. Plus, Dick Cavett is a great show host.

@jbob34345 Год назад

I like the more relaxed interview style

@willtowin9996 Год назад

he is one of my favourite humans

@ivarlarsen6045 Год назад

Great fun to watch. Greetings from Reykjavík!

@mikeyates7931 3 месяца назад

Iceland 🇮🇸 ❤

@Ersfeld_Claude_art 3 месяца назад

Bobby Fischer was a fascinating person.

@douggieharrison6913 7 месяцев назад

I like how he tranlates Russian for Bobby when Bobby learned Russian and Serbian to learn how to read their chess books and smoke them😂

@appLord1 4 месяца назад

he treats the pieces like they owe him money

@hyzercreek Год назад

From the fall of 1962 US Championship to the end of his life, Fischer played in 20 tournaments and matches. He won all 20, usually by a large margin, except for the Capablanca Memorial in 1965, in which he placed 2nd, only 1/2 point behind the winner, and the Piatagorsky in 1966, which he also placed 2nd, down by, once again, only 1/2 point behind the winner. Some of the tournaments he won by unbelievable margins. His W/L percentage and W/draw percentages are staggering.

@Kyle-nm1kh 6 месяцев назад

I have no idea what half a point means

@hyzercreek 6 месяцев назад

@@Kyle-nm1kh A draw, each player gets half a point for a draw

@Kyle-nm1kh 6 месяцев назад

@hyzercreek so if he lost by half a point its because he drew but the other guy didn't draw and instead won? How many games are in a tournament like that

@hyzercreek 6 месяцев назад

@@Kyle-nm1kh OK Paul Morphy. One guy wins 6 loses 2 and draws 9. Second guy wins 7 loses 2 and draws 8. First guy finishes with 10 1/2 points, second guy finishes with 11.

@wiselizard6-vg5ih 3 месяца назад

And the winner was.... Boris Spassky!!!

@MizQue Год назад

Could you post the interview with Bobby after he won the World Championship?

@johnbaker3037 Год назад

YES. I have been wanting to see that interview for so long.

@hyzercreek Год назад

@@johnbaker3037 He said "Chess speaks for itself," as he walked to the bathroom to pull beads from his arse.

@drfre4400 7 месяцев назад

@@hyzercreek wasnt it hikiro nakamora?

@GerardSoricelli-jf2dq 3 месяца назад

Fischer would have destroyed Karpov in their '75 match ...by at least 10-3 score. !!!

@GerardSoricelli-jf2dq 3 месяца назад

Karpov knew he had a very slim chance. Fischer was in great physical shape also at the age of 32

@EGarrett01 Год назад

There's another interview Dick did with Bobby where Bobby has a pink shirt on, I don't think I've ever seen it posted yet. Put that one up guys!

@Sammydancingsir87 Год назад

maroon suit december 1972

@raskalnekov Месяц назад

I love his laugh when he says "I'm reasonable..." at 14:01

@High_Priest_Jonko Месяц назад

He's like a cool older brother from the past era

@user-pl9yq3fc8u Год назад

wow he wanted to play for another 30 years

@artfasil 2 месяца назад

Great man with a great mind.

@dixonbeejay Месяц назад

Absolute pure gold

@lotto7720 8 месяцев назад

Whenever im in a chess slump i always come back to this dk why it works like a charm tho🍀

@werquantum 4 месяца назад

Simply fascinating.

@pronemanoldbutyoung5548 Год назад

Bobby and Magnus Carlsen picks up the pieces with elegance and fully stretched fingers.

@VinzentDk 5 месяцев назад

Interesting to see the way he slams the pieces around on the board. Spending days and days analyzing positions he would likely make thousands of moves a day in study.

@pbennett13 2 месяца назад

Cavett always had some facts or trivia on the ready... Him being able to say what 'CCCP' meant is yet another example

@adrianamatlack532 9 месяцев назад

Later Fischer told Cavett that there were some very good women chess players, also he did call in to a Iceland TV station to comment about at chess game being played on TV. He also paid for some of his friends medical bills when they were ill, like Frank Brady who ran the Marshall Chess Club.

@kidnicky7489 4 дня назад

This man was a based genius

@predragkliska Месяц назад

Beautiful Dubrovnik chess set..

@herbertmische8660 Год назад

Great, fantastic and immortal Bobby Fischer!!! Respect forever!!! 👍👍👍

@lanceschaina3084 2 месяца назад

That era of late night variety shows: Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett and Joey Bishop, was an absolute golden age.

@markcrofton9332 8 месяцев назад

I feel like Bobby Fischer at some point was Christopher Walkin’s chess coach

@druid3694 6 месяцев назад

😂

@nicbentulan 6 месяцев назад

Wesley So's uncle is Bobby Fischer. Bobby Fischer's successor is Wesley So, h nephew. God bless America.

@bradforddrake8633 2 месяца назад

I never realized that Fischer could be so funny!

@abramizaackaplan6723 Год назад

The “dumb” question by the lady is one of the most profound questions about chess generally speaking. “Do you do anything else on the side”? Chess masters are fundamentally epic problem solvers and geniuses with respect to pattern recognition. If they were to apply these skills to outside disciplines they would likely reap tremendous rewards for themselves and the rest of humanity.

@subarashiikylox2019 Год назад

u like to think that but it's actually not true they're just good at chess and other things connected to chess

@dimajo3057 Год назад

I certainly see no evidence of that, i also remember a story during world war 2 where they collected people from different "problem solving" fields, crosswords, chess players other activities, and then a mathematician Alan Turing. The mission was to solve the code of the Enigma Machine it was done by The Mathematician with the rest being of no help at all, or so the story goes.

@doodoo4981 Год назад

This is literally the dumbest thing I’ve read this year and I speak as someone who’s also pretty intelligent (125 IQ tested) and I’m into chess. Your average 2000-2200 rated player does not have the capabilities to change the world. Chess really isn’t as hard as other disciplines that actually do make a change (studying STEM) if you’re gifted (like me and Bobby). Also if you’re a master, then chess is probably REALLY fun because it is literally a GAME😮!!! Linear algebra is not…

@dimaratosgeorgiadis2672 Год назад

@@dimajo3057 never seen a better answer on a yt comment.

@Coskunn Год назад

Let's not exaggerate, it is a board game.

@studgerbil9081 25 дней назад

It's a shame he never faced Judit Polgar in an official match. They both beat every champion they faced at one time or another (usually in friendlies) and he actually stayed with her family when he was in exile and they played chess all the time there. Bobby remains the GOAT to this day.

@GerardSoricelli-jf2dq 3 месяца назад

Karpov struggled against Korchnoi in a long match. Fischer beat Spassky 7 of 8 deciding games after being down 0-2. Absolutely awesome

@gabmosmessi Год назад

Dick please upload the interview after he won the world championship , he was wearing a red or pink suit , there's a video of few seconds out there but we want to watch the whole thing , it's important

@alaindespres3509 2 месяца назад

Dubrovnik chess pieces, Fischer love it!

@mr.alboss2856 Год назад

Why are you guys not posting after he won the world championship?

@rpralica 2 месяца назад

I can call myself lucky because I watched two world champions Boris Spassky and Bobi Fischer live in Belgrade in 1992.

@shingitai5882 Год назад

I have only ever seen clips of this interview before, thanks for posting. I think you can see how fragile he was even then.

@rodionraskolnilov Год назад

he looks fine...

@shingitai5882 Год назад

@@rodionraskolnilov I meant his mental health.

@subarashiikylox2019 Год назад

huh ?? he was in a decent shape not 2 skinny or fat just like any normal human being

@shingitai5882 Год назад

@@subarashiikylox2019 I refer you to my previous reply, in which I said I was referring to his mental health.

@sportsjefe 4 месяца назад

@@subarashiikylox2019 not frail, fragile. someone who is very easy to make uncomfortable.

@Sangria Год назад

Don't know about you but I prefer this version of Bobby Fischer myself.

@HoangTran0412 10 месяцев назад

The chess god…

@meatloaf3034 Год назад

Dick Cavett just casually knowing what CCCP stands for and how to say it in Russian. How?!

@reidluttrell3034 Год назад

Hes spassky didnt you hear him?

@druid3694 6 месяцев назад

Good question.

@christopherearl8948 4 месяца назад

Probably had him on a watch list after that.

@deanwilliams433 3 месяца назад

People back then were a lot more knowledgeable and interested in the USSR due to the cold war.

@janeteorto Год назад

3:25

@jaffsonwarrior5722 7 месяцев назад

What chess board is in this video

@elih9700 Год назад

A young Christopher Walken would be perfect to play Bobby.

@abhiramgollapudi3930 8 месяцев назад

the voice is very similar too

@TheStewie117 6 месяцев назад

love that arrogance he’s got 😂😂

@EGarrett01 Год назад

Fun Fact: Bobby's Father wrote a review of the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica.

@hyzercreek 7 месяцев назад

Fun fact. Bobby had no idea who his father was.

@EGarrett01 7 месяцев назад

@@hyzercreekBobby said Paul would come by when he was young and take him out and show him things like which fork to use when eating. Paul also sent Regina child support and when Paul died she wrote to Paul's other son asking if Paul had left any money for Bobby. Paul's other son also said that Paul was Bobby's father.

@hyzercreek 7 месяцев назад

@@EGarrett01 Thanks. Do you know why his mother put Hans Fischer as his father on the birth certificate? Who did he look like?

@inoderlulzer5163 7 месяцев назад

@@EGarrett01You mean how to use the fork to win pieces.

@EGarrett01 7 месяцев назад

@@hyzercreek He looked like Paul Nemenyi. You can see them side by side easily.

@zephyrr108 6 месяцев назад

How many times did he went on this show?

@bsjeffrey Год назад

i bet he beats spassky

@billcaruso7050 Год назад

You're on! $5 !!

@hemutitu1870 7 месяцев назад

@@billcaruso7050its been 9 months bruce, u still owe him 5 dollars

@billmarshall8438 23 дня назад

After the show, Dick used his tie as a bedsheet.

@vaar2742 25 дней назад

Would love to see Bobby against Magnus Carlsen today...he would intimidate completely. Both brilliant.

@twistedoperator4422 Месяц назад

Hey it's Nader!

@Oh_So_Based 6 месяцев назад

The New York accent tho

@keaton718 2 месяца назад

Bobby really enjoyed his five minutes of mainstream fame, like he can barely contain how much fun he's having on Cavett and Carson. Which makes he surprising he didn't defend his title because if he won a second time he would have been able to do it again. His fear of losing was greater than his love of winning. In his 1993 rematch he had the gall to call himself the undefeated champion, like dude the chess world had moved on, you wouldn't have been able to defend your title in all the in between years, you would have stopped being the best player in the world. He did stop becoming the best player in the world when he didn't defend.

@amihans108 9 месяцев назад

Everybody do you all know, Chess was originated in India (Bihar)

@druid3694 6 месяцев назад

Maybe that is what they teach you in India. 😂😂😂

@patriotsman6511 5 месяцев назад

Ralph nader would have been a excellent president

@billbergendahl2911 19 дней назад

That looks like Ralph Nader on the far left.

@amihans108 9 месяцев назад

100 to the power 100, also called googol, possible different chess move position

@youngThrashbarg Год назад

1:30 oops.

@enriqueleon1169 Год назад

Can someone please identify the 2 guests for the rest of us?

@taztaztaz Год назад

Ralph Nader and Sandy Duncan

@sepupr21 Год назад

Who is the lady on the interview?

@hyzercreek 7 месяцев назад

sandy duncan

@razen4758 2 месяца назад

we missing in 2024 this type of humor from a premium host.

@georgemorley1029 2 месяца назад

5:48

@christopherbako Год назад

Geez, is he a Giant?

@baddest406 Год назад

He's damn tall

@lebojay Год назад

No, Ralph Nader is only 6’3” 😜

@DarkIllusionsxX Год назад

He's not that tall, Dick is just short

@russellfrancis6294 Год назад

6’2

@albertcamus1739 Год назад

He was around 6.2 6.3

@bertlindsay 10 месяцев назад

Ralph Nader??

@victorgf9190 6 месяцев назад

Looks like nic cage

@shervinkalinia Месяц назад

Bro had aura

@jobson586 16 дней назад

The man who on his own took on the whole corrupt chess world and lost everything but his dignity

@davemr6193 2 месяца назад

always wondered what kind of black jack player he was, with ability to count cards

@billmarshall8438 23 дня назад

Fischer died at age 64, the number of squares on a chess board.

@somethingyousaid5059 Год назад

ABC Wide World Of Sports in the 1970s when I was a kid. Seems like I saw coverage of a B F chess match on that. God, that doesn't make a bit of sense though. I must be wrong about that. My brain.

@robmorr23 Год назад

ABC Sports filmed the first game, but the cameras were whirring according to Bobby Fischer on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on January 8th, 1972. I believe the date is correct. It esd written into the contracts both players signed, if the cameras disturbed either player they would be removed from the playing hall.

@somethingyousaid5059 Год назад

@@robmorr23 Thanks buddy.

@robmorr23 Год назад

@@somethingyousaid5059 Your welcome.

@user-gj9hk7gx2b 6 месяцев назад

He gives a Nicolas cage vibe…

@amihans108 9 месяцев назад

I just need one week, as I already said, all Top chess players should be given rank according to their ratings and then information should be Putten in their head, dear Respected Sir/Mam

@inktag9190 9 месяцев назад

15:10 He shouldve played scrabble 😂

@WheelBite97 3 месяца назад

12:45 what is going on with Fischer's hair? is that a fan or something blowing on it?

@russellfrancis6294 Год назад

Who was that kooky lady asking Bobby questions?

@fs357mag Год назад

Sandy Duncan.

@astephens1963 Год назад

I know Karlsen was top 4. But Kasparov fischer for all the marbles in my book.

@user-pl9yq3fc8u Год назад

who is karlsen

@ChessKingsTV777 Год назад

@@user-pl9yq3fc8u no one cares about him.. you dont have to know!

@user-pl9yq3fc8u Год назад

@@ChessKingsTV777 if you're making a sarcastic comment about me not knowing who magnus carlsen is i reccomend you reading both OP's comment and my comment because it says "Karlsen" with a k instead of c

@ChessKingsTV777 Год назад

@@user-pl9yq3fc8u I also recommend to you reading my name -.-

@emmioglu3214 Год назад

@@ChessKingsTV777 Bro didn't even hesitate

@chriswright2250 11 месяцев назад

I Retired at 56 from a career of 31 years.

@KokoTheGorilla69 Год назад

He's in my top 20 favorite anti-Semites

@lebojay Год назад

I didn’t know he was an antisemite. Thank you Koko. 🍌

@QuadMochaMatti Год назад

Love that T-Bone ☕🍖☠️!

@R0KURU Год назад

He was a smart man

@bovnycccoperalover3579 Год назад

The FBI thought his mother Regina, was a Communist but who knows? His mother did have Jewish parents.

@hyzercreek Год назад

@@bovnycccoperalover3579 She was a communist

@williambartley7007 9 месяцев назад

He supposedly had an IQ of 180 but I'm surprised that he didn't understand why there are a finite number of possible chess games.

@peterberg9219 9 месяцев назад

There arent. Unless you limit number of moves.

@meetpatel247 8 месяцев назад

There are.

@zephyrr108 6 месяцев назад

Its finite but a lot of games..

@pedramtajeddini5100 4 месяца назад

@@peterberg9219there's a finite number of chess games

@bevs9995 3 месяца назад

infinite?? i think you are thinking of chinese go

@Demian_R 27 дней назад

I thought that was some old lady until the close up, she was just 26 under all that lol.

@mikeyates7931 3 месяца назад

Is it just me or does , Sandy Duncan want him in the absolute worst possible way ? 🤪

@WheelBite97 3 месяца назад

I noticed that too, she was checking him out the whole time lol

@mikeyates7931 3 месяца назад

@@WheelBite97 I'm glad it isn't just me

@thecloud5831 Месяц назад

It was a big mistake for Fisher to agree to an interview with such a clownish interviewer, who focused only on making fun of such a legendary chess player.

@msmo6684 Год назад

she was the reason Bobby hated women

@alvingomez4083 5 месяцев назад

Why cant people come up with there own theories? Like you have to use a theory on my own theory?

@johnlvspinkfloyd 8 месяцев назад

To be a champion you must have some amount of ego...

@dougellis7917 3 месяца назад

Should have been a good interview. Too bad it wasn't.

@suyoggedam6578 3 месяца назад

Look at his hand movements. He is still too fast !

@escapefelicity2913 9 месяцев назад

Hard to believe any body thought that orchertra noise was a good idea. But, in 1972 people thought it a good idea to bomb Cambodia.

@FINNEGANAGENNIF 5 месяцев назад

Dick Cavett always seemed to be trying to impress that he was clearly on anyone else's intellectual level. Here he is clearly not! No one gives a rat's ass about HIS personal ability to make anagrams, and how THAT equates you to a mental athlete at Fischer's stature! Take a lesson from Johnny Carson: DON'T even TRY to compete with a guest at their own renowned game! If you're a great host/interviewer, don't come off as, "I am better than you at chewing gum. Tell me about yourself!" No. Ask the person to talk about the things people(THE AUDIENCE) want to know about THEM! It's NOT about YOU!(DUH!). It's about making your guest comfortable, accessible, respected, and acknowledged as a worthy guest! Don't go off track, keep it entertaining and informative. THAT'S Where Cavett fails. A small man trying to be bigger than equal. And he had it all. If only he didn't have THAT chip up his ass. I almost liked Dick Cavett. But he liked himself a bit too much!