What a tremendous idea ! To honor the only perfect score, ever in the US Chess Championship Tournament. 11-0, By GM Robert Fischer. With a $64,000.00 Bonus for a Perfect Score in this year’s US Chess Championship Tournament.
This Chess Club in St. Louis, continues to impress.
I hope to be there for the Men’s US Chess Championship Tournament.
A friend who stopped by there informed me, that it is the most Elaborate, Class Act, Chess Club he has ever seen, in over 40 years of visiting Chess Clubs.
May they continue to set a standard. Just my take on it.
Nice gesture and marketing concept, but that’s a pretty safe gamble, isn’t it?
As little as I care for Fischer, the person, has anything close to his level of talent or results, ever been shown at US Championship? I mean, is there another Morphy in the wings I haven’t heard about?
About the same odds as a man over 60, making GM in one tournament. Larry Kaufman chose to take those odds, and won.
In Chess never, is not set in concrete, The odds were against Mr. Fischer ever being the first perfect score. But I certainly would say it is a “safe” bet. Just my take on it.
It’s a very classy thing to do, to honor Bobby. He deserves it. He was the greatest, ever.
The tragic thing is, were it not for his illness (probably Asperger’s Syndrome), he could not have reached the heights that he did, alone and by himself, without a coterie of trainers or computers to guide him; nor could he have fallen so far so fast and died the way he did, alone, outcast and, I like to think, looking for some way back into the human race.
I will always be grateful that Susan Polgar, when she made her DVD of his best games, put this giant in proper and compassionate perspective. And she did this when the world was baying for Bobby’s head. That, too, was a classy thing to do.
Larry Kaufman chose to take those odds, and won.