Bobby Fischer
American chess grandmasterWikipedia
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Sep 17, 2026
ThomasGUEST
Then I found out, like, I love pool, you know, and billiards.
ThomasGUEST
But, you know, what these chess masters can do, like, there's this movie about, like, Bobby Fischer.
ThomasGUEST
Now, he's like a persona non grata because he's anti-Semitic.
ThomasGUEST
He said something nice about Serbia or something, but he was canceled.
ThomasGUEST
But there's this movie about Bobby Fischer and his life as this child prodigy.
ThomasGUEST
And the way they portray it, I realize you've got to portray things in a certain way in film to make it compelling, but especially if it's a cerebral process you're trying to convey to the audience.
ThomasGUEST
But the way these high-level chess kids are playing, it's almost like a shootout.
WillPANELIST
And it's not that they were better, it's just that they knew they had all the moves programmed into them.
WillPANELIST
But the problem with them and why they lost still to people like Bobby Fischer or the Russians is that it took too long.
WillPANELIST
They couldn't see the nuances of the game.
WillPANELIST
They knew the game, they knew all the moves, But there's a difference between that and the human mind, which has nuances on the tape, on the board.
WillPANELIST
It's just that they knew they had all the moves programmed into them.
WillPANELIST
But the problem with them and why they lost still to people like Bobby Fischer or the Russians is that it took too long.
WillPANELIST
They couldn't see the nuances of the game.
WillPANELIST
They knew the game.
Brandon BombayHOST
King pawn takes ass.
Andy SHOST
Like, I've become the Bobby Fischer
Brandon BombayHOST
fucking fooling around.
Brandon BombayHOST
oh yeah i start getting i started uh and then at the end i just start single tear crying like the dude at the end of fresh that's a
Cody KnoppGUEST
Like there's a, there's a, a story that I, I always think is great, and I forget the name of the movie.
Cody KnoppGUEST
I want to say it was called like The Search for Bobby Fischer or something like that.
PJHOST
Mm-hmm.
Cody KnoppGUEST
Came out in the '90s.
Cody KnoppGUEST
Bobby Fischer-
PJHOST
Yep
Cody KnoppGUEST
... was like a, a...
Ryan EllisHOST
The Royal Tenenbaums, There Will Be Blood, Revolutionary Road, The Social Network, True Grit, Captain Phillips, Inside Llewyn Davis, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Lady Bird.
Ryan EllisHOST
While searching for Bobby Fischer and Moneyball.
Ryan EllisHOST
reviewed on scoring at the movies.
Ryan EllisHOST
So that's 13 on this channel and 15 overall for Rudin.
16 MINS LATER
Ryan EllisHOST
Well, no, they started to ride.
Ryan EllisHOST
Charles' funeral is emotional, although Logan's still too distant to do anything more than watch, from a distance.
Ryan EllisHOST
Bobby comforts both his girlfriend Rogue and also Kitty, then that night he ends up icing up a pond and making some skates for him and Kitty to do some skating.
Ryan EllisHOST
A jealous Rogue seeing that means she really wants the cure, at least partly so she can touch her boyfriend the way that Kitty can.
Jacob PraschHOST
But be that as it may, we really need a chess master.
Jacob PraschHOST
We need a Bobby Fischer.
Jacob PraschHOST
We need somebody who knows how to play chess.
Jacob PraschHOST
Russia is not going to be the oil power it was.
Gary NaylorGUEST
So this was a grudge match to end all grudge matches when it comes to chess.
Gary NaylorGUEST
If you thought that Bobby Fischer against Boris Spassky was a grudge match, this was much more, especially internally in the Soviet Union, because Kasparov with the rock star looks and the... wonderful ability to communicate was from Baku in Azerbaijan, one of the republics that standard to gain considerably from the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which was still a few years off.
Gary NaylorGUEST
But obviously Perestroika was in play and You've got Gorbachev in the Kremlin, things changing very rapidly.
Gary NaylorGUEST
So there was a lot going on in this.
DrewAUDIENCE
You know, Dom, I, I don't know what to think about, um, this Tucker Carlson guy, man.
DrewAUDIENCE
He, he, he's like the Bobby Fischer of media, man.
DrewAUDIENCE
He, he went from being boy genius to, like, who knows what the heck he's thinking now.
DrewAUDIENCE
He's, he's, he's crazy.
Dorri Ben-AmiGUEST
Ian Nepomniachtchi, who is Jewish, played for the world championship twice, against Magnus Carlsen in twenty twenty-one and Ding Liren in twenty twenty-three.
Dorri Ben-AmiGUEST
Even Bobby Fischer, who became notorious for his antisemitism, had a Jewish mother.
Dorri Ben-AmiGUEST
So what was going on? There is no single answer, and I don't buy the idea that there's some Jewish chess gene.
Dorri Ben-AmiGUEST
History offers more interesting explanations.
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