Yasser Seirawan Tells Crazy Bobby Fischer Stories 

That is so accurate

😂

Unintentional ASMR is the best. Regular ASMR with the whispering pisses me off

No he like the Trump of chess

"I'mma move this happy little pawn across the board, and it blossoms into another beautiful Queeeeeen!"

He is a truly great guy and it's not an act..

my guess is he is smart enough TO STAY AWAY from people who fall in love with him by seeing him online...YIKES

@@jadezee6316 it's not romantic love

@@arkancer2210 seriously, what a knucklehead. Clearly the commenter meant charmed or enamored with his character. Is there not enough data of Seirawan’s behavior online to form a sort of aesthetic judgment of his character? We form such judgments of a person after a much briefer exposure to them in ordinary life. Ridiculous.

He spoke so well of Bobby even after Fischer verbally attacked him in an interview calling him horrible names and claiming he was another "crooked jew".

Hello. I am Yasser’s personal assistant. He read your comment and would also like to meet you! Not only that, he is willing to fly you out to his private Caribbean island for you to have dinner with him!

@@centrelink6003 the dream ahaha

Not the I met him years ago in the st .Louis chess club during the Sinqfeld cup. He has broad shoulders and a compact body. At those events it's easiest to meet him. I situated myself by the door when the games were winding down. If you go to the St. Louis chess club make sure you know the players off day because there is one and they don't tell you when you call. No need to waste a trip which can get expensive.

"GM Seirawan is the Nicest guy - I hope to meet him someday" Why would you want to meet a boring sycophant?

He is a nice guy and was one even as a teenager -- although it may have also been sincere, he was very aware of his image as a grandmaster and how behaving like a gentlemen would help him get interviewed etc.

Maybe, but you wouldn't know it from the editing. Just butchered his stories.

Really?

Wait until you hear what I can't reveal yet about Fischer LOL

I agree.

Sorry, but nothing new or even interesting here. I expected some unknown anecdotes about Fischer, but we didn't get it here.

he also said something about how he doesn't believe in psychology but that went nowhere.

@@radicalbradical3164 He said "I don't believe in psychology, I only believe in good moves" or something very close to that. He was referring to using psychology in a chess match, not psychology in general. His point was that he did not think psychology could win a chess game, but only good moves can. I am not totally sure I agree with what he said, but he did not simply say "I don't believe in psychology."

I agree that Fischer probably could have been really good at anything mathematical/analytical he turned his hand to but he focused on chess and read only garbage books and pamphlets and ended up contributing nothing outside of chess and hurting a lot of people with his nastiness.

@@atlslugger14 psychology does have a lot to do with chess and he knew it as his big stature and frame intimidated opponents.

@@radicalbradical3164 Your math dont quite add up...Im 6 ft 4 an and when i lay down my moves (1 f3) ect nobodys intimidated lol

Well put.

What tha....

Little bit of A .. Little bit of B lol

And the picture showing Fisher giving somebody the finger was really tacky also. But the headline was definitely intended to play up Fisher's later mental problems, which I find repugnant. Why Seirawan felt the need to do either of these two things is beyond me.

@@davidblack2970 This isn't his channel

@@davidblack2970 - He didn’t “need” to, he chose to.

YES. I played in the US Open in 1983 and got a plus score. Peter Faulk did indeed show up. Later I played Viktor Korchnoi in a simultaneous exhibition in Santa Monica. I was up a pawn with rooks on the board. Korchnoi offered me a draw. I turned it down and lost. I had fun.

Bobby could’ve eaten at City Wok for life for that alone.

*Shitty Wok (Can I taekah ohdah preaz?)

Havne't read any of his books. Which one do you recommend? ( I'm rated ~1950 USCF)

@@maoufa The 4 I read were in a series. They may not be advanced enough for you but they were fun going through. "Play Winning Chess", "Openings", "Winning Chess Tactics" and "Winning Strategies". So, whichever sounds like the most fun.

He's basically already written a book on this subject. The book of the 1992 Fischer-Spassky match (titled No Regrets) has all of Yasser's personal encounters with Bobby.

He has a wonderful book about legends: "Chess duels". Its a treasure

@@carlossimancas9867 I need to find that one.

Don’t miss his rampant anti-semitism

​@@xSmuckerZxJellyoh no, someone said something mean about you.

Spasskij got paranoid too, during their match in 1972, but no one ever mentions that. His paranoia there was probably as justified as Fischer´s but no one ever talks about him being paranoid or delusional.

you just referenced my famous thought for the day : just because youre paranoid, doesnt mean people arent out to get you" great minds think alike--welcome to the club lol

but being paranoid to that extent is insanity. I highly doubt he was followed.

@@radicalbradical3164 during the '72 worlds he was 100% being followed by both CIA and KGB

@@Flum666 maybe you should get help too

I assume you mean that to be sarcastic. The editor seems to think that chess fans can only follow a story for 30 seconds.

4.bp.blogspot.com/-VEz7Lm9AfwA/UbEp66-fUBI/AAAAAAAACJY/fM9fj4Ib6G8/s1600/pizzapos.jpg Bobby is black, his opponent just played Nd5 to Nf4.

@@bboybrian The move is Rxf4, correct?

@@Michael-vf2mw of course

Gabriel Beauchemin Rxf4!

@Gabriel Beauchemin lichess.org/analysis/r5k1/pb2p2p/2q3p1/2p1b1B1/5r1Q/6PP/PP4B1/R5K1_w_q_-_0_1

Fischer had no intentionof playing Karpov or anyone ever again. He told me that personally. Said he had nothing left to prove and wanted me to carry on his work. I had the highest math scores or very close on the citywide tests. Said he never saw a player (including himself) with talent on my level. He was right.

Ray Gordon Teaches Chess I traveled constantly with Bobby and he continuously talked about you being the worst chess player he ever saw.

@@stevenmiller7747 Lol

@@stevenmiller7747 Well I was SEVEN at the time..

Ray Gordon Teaches Chess and that’s what made Bobby the MASTER! He could tell when you were 7 that you would never be any good and time has proven him right. We stayed up until the wee hours of the morning many a time and if he said it once he said it a million times “that 7 year old Ray is the worst chess player ever in the history of the world”

VoidRockSteady I also started with the English because of him!

I want to hear a few Viktors Pupols stories someday. Old Uncle Vik.

Come on! Bobby Fischer beat the weakest chess World champion Boris Spassky only 17 wins 10 losses! Carlsen would beat Spassky easily 6 wins 6 draws zero losses! Capablanca would beat Spassky easily 8 wins 6 draws zero losses!! Carlsen would beat Fischer 30 times easily because Spassky won 10 times against Fischer!!

Who wouldn’t?

I read that wrong. And laughed super hard

Fischer ran away because he was afraid of giving away his tricks by continuing to play. He would always have found an excuse not to play, regardless of how many golden bridges were built for him. Don't forget the '72 match would never have taken place if the likes of Benko, Kramer, Lombardy and Saidy would not have gone out of their way to make it happen in spite of his childish behavior.

That was the most copium thing ive ever heard xd

Some people will read the devil's temptation of Jesus in the Bible, and call that a downward spiral too.

Bobby was TOO smart for chess.

You don't?

Im already 33 minutes in 33:35 --- The Soviets squeezed Bobby out of his world championship title, despite the fact that Karpov wanted to play him and his requests were not unreasonable.

She knows her stuff!

Do tell!

@@johnteixeira8974 If there is space here, I will copy it in the following reply.

@@johnteixeira8974 I was a student at the time and a member of the PSU chess club in 72-75. Donald had Lupus erythematosus and was scheduled for (dangerous) abdominal surgery in Philadelphia. They had a tributary dinner at a local country club, I believe 1974, and many in the chess community were invited, even lowly members of the chess club (i.e. me). After the tributes to Donald Byrne were given, he gave a response which involved several stories. I believe this story takes place some time in the mid to late 1950s, in New York city. At the awards ceremony, the winners were on stage to receive their checks. Fischer having won the tournament took his check and immediately started to walk of the stage. Donald Byrne stepped in front of Bobby and explained to him that it was a matter of courtesy to thank the organizers and say something about the tournament. For this part of the story, Donald spoke in a heavy New York City accent. Paraphrasing Fischer: “I want to thank the organizers for inviting so many fish, so I had easy games.” Donald Byrne left Fischer walk on by this time.

seats for arbiters

Fax

In Yasser’s book, he says that Karpov would have beaten Bobby. Yasser also says Fischer was #3 all time, behind Kasparov & Karpov.

Surely you're joking mr. Feynman !!! 😂😂😂😂😉👌🏻

What was unfair about Fischer's conditions? Do you believe Fischer would have pulled out even if they were met? What nonsense.

RxR (or QxR, Qg2 mate), BxN pinning the queen and paving the way for Qg2 mate next move.

David is 100% correct. I was going to reply but saw he covered it perfectly.

Nah, try Vai Sikahema!

I’d get an actor who actually looked like Seirawan but that’s just me.

Donald was Roberts's younger brother. Both played chess.