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average chess champion description: very weird guy, loved playing chess
any brief mention of tal: HE WAS AN ETHEREAL BEING TRYING DESPERATELY TO LIVE A SHORT HUMAN LIFE TO ITS FULLEST. NAVY OFFICERS WERE LOOKING AT HIM WITH LOVE IN THEIR EYES. A GAMBLER, A LOVER, A MAGICIAN, AN ANGEL AND A DEMON. WITHOUT HIM CHESS ISN'T A PARTY. HE WAS THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE. WE ALL MISS HIM
the real reason why fischer refused to defend his title in 1975 was because he knew that with him and karpov in the same room the fish puns would have been legendary
fem fischerspassky :V
AWWWWWW
so... whats the deal with the one and only photo of karpov and fischer together?? karpov had mentioned in his memoir that it was sold to france-presse, but i've been digging through old french newspapers archives for a couple of days and still found nothing :'(
while i wasn't able to find the photo itself, i accidentally stumbled upon a whole ass yandex disk archive with all the issues of the "64" chess magazine from 1925 to 2024 (excluding the period from 1929 to 1967 for some reason) and a bunch of other chess-related things i will post a bit later (what concerns the archive, i'll leave the link to it here because there is wayyy too much to be posted, but idk whether it is possible to use yandex disk outside of russia and belarus)
so... whats the deal with the one and only photo of karpov and fischer together?? karpov had mentioned in his memoir that it was sold to france-presse, but i've been digging through old french newspapers archives for a couple of days and still found nothing :'(
he was forced to play professional chess when he was eleven
fem hans + some daniil
blessing my eyes ~(˘▾˘~)
with human soul you can learn remember and even dream
worm in the ground: honestly im not interested
quietly spiraling
my favorite genre of kasparov's photos? the awkward ones
holy SHIT this sure is something
staying in your divorced dad's apartment for the holidays be like
we talk about fischer's antisemitism often but we talk less about spassky's (likely because he was less vocal)
in 2005, spassky signed the letter of 5000, it called judaism "anti-christian and inhumane" and it included the antisemitic trope of jews committing "ritual murders".
he later claimed: “the appearance of my name was a mistake. as a ‘chess king,’ i have always tried to fortify and unite the multinational kingdom of chess, and not to cause division within it. i will remain faithful to that principle in my old age.”
