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Date Posted: Wed, July 30 2003, 1:54:52
Author: Todd
Subject:

Secret Story of Bobby Fischer(translation form Russian)

Don't miss it. It shows, how "truthful" Russian journalists are, how "carefully" they check the information and how "well" they know chess history.

http://jn.com.ua/History/Skaruppe_1607.html

Secret Story of Bobby Fischer

The independent newspaper

This April frau Rosa Skaruppe celebrated her 90th birthday. But the dweller of Swiss resourt town Interlaken is still vigorous, with sparking eyes. She even drank a couple of glasses with our tourist company. Frau Rosa told me an amazing story how in fascist Germany she has rescued from death the father of the chess genius Bobby Fischer.

It happened in the summer of 1933. Not far from this time frau Rosa came in Germany from Zwitserland. Being fond of socialist ideas from her youth she found the adherents from International Socialist Union of struggle and together with them tried to organize resistance to Nazi dictatorship. One of the actions she participated in was the rescue of Jewish children whose parents were sent into concentration camps after Hitler had come to power. In Giessen socialists organized an "underground" kindergarten. But soon Nazists took the kindergarten under the control, and the workers had to take children in their houses. In Kassel they could hardly receive permission to it, the kindergarten was guarded by Nazist all day round, childred were not allowed to leave it " up to the conforming order ".

The boy taken by Rosa, was named Peter Nemenyi. At that time he was six. His parents had been arrested at the beginning of 1933, and since then nothing had been heard from them. In April, 1933 the Rosa brought Peter in the house of her parents in Wintertour, east Switzerland. During the two months Peter spent with Rosa and her family, the boy managed to amaze everybody with his skill to solve complex mathematical problems, sometimes too difficult even for adults.

Once Peter's grandmother came to see them from Budapest the grandmother ��. She stayed with them a few days and persuaded them to let Peter go with her to Hungary. Rose and her senior comrades from the League, however, insisted on leaving Peter in Switzerland. They were convinced, that Nazists sooner or later occupy Hungary too. They also had great doubts regarding the future of Switzerland and decided to send Peter in great Britain and then in the USA. Since then Rose has never seen him. Only many years later she learnt that Peter had become a famous scientist and at the end of forties got married to Regina Fischer, a feminist activist and they gave birth to a son Bobby, who took his mother's family name after his parents divorsed. Twenty years had passed, before frau Rosa occasionally saw young Bobby Fischer on TV, playing the match for a chess crown with Spassky in Reykjavic. It was already in 1968.

"When I saw him on the TV-screen, for some reason at once felt, that he would become a winner," - Rosa recollected. . -" I do not know why, but it happened ". But that most surprising, frau Rosa did not know at the time that Bobby Fischer is the same person with Bobby, a son of regina and Peter Nemenyi. She learnt about it later, from the relatives of the same coherent , that in far 1934 has taken away the boy from Wintertour in London, and then in New York.

After that she did not get any new information on Fischer : the man, writing her from America, died. So any further information about the eccentic ex-king of chess frau Rosa learned casually from the reports of MASS-MEDIA. She has not heard anything new about Fischer for the last 20 years. All she knows is that Bobby leads a secretive life in different countries.

Now that is all. I certainly asked frau Rosa and her relatives if anybody ever wrote about it. No, they said that it was family stoty and nobody spread about it. Just a journalist from Moscow came, asked for something special and the hosts remembered this usual but at the same time amazing story. As a persistent reporter i wanted to get as much proof as possible and they send me a few pictures with children and their kindergarten-teachers, but there were no big photos and frau Rosa could not remember, which of the boys was a future father of the chess genius.

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Re: Secret Story of Bobby Fischer(translation form Russian) -- Peter van der Hoog, Thu, July 31 2003, 6:29:21
- Gave the link of ur new page to Flamenca -- Katerina, Sat, August 02 2003, 2:42:39
  - Re: Gave the link of ur new page to Flamenca -- Peter van der Hoog, Sun, August 03 2003, 7:26:08
    - Yes, it is better to rewrite it (NT) -- Katerina, Mon, August 04 2003, 4:35:08
- Read yer new section -- Todd, Sun, August 03 2003, 10:25:52
  - Re: Read yer new section -- Peter van der Hoog, Sun, August 03 2003, 10:31:17
    - Picture of Joan Targ was shown in Icelandic Fischer interview -- Todd, Sun, August 03 2003, 10:44:41
      - Re: Picture of Joan Targ was shown in Icelandic Fischer interview -- Peter van der Hoog, Sun, August 03 2003, 15:37:46
        Added two images -- Peter van der Hoog, Mon, August 04 2003, 15:00:54
        Re: Added two images -- Todd, Tue, August 05 2003, 1:45:05
        Re: Added two images -- Margaret, Tue, August 05 2003, 14:01:01
        Re: Added two images -- Todd, Thu, August 07 2003, 11:31:24
And who is the father in their opinion?(Or, as Russians used to say "Kto komu Vasya?") -- Katerina, Sat, August 02 2003, 2:54:14
- Re: And who is the father in their opinion?(Or, as Russians used to say "Kto komu Vasya?") -- Todd, Sun, August 03 2003, 10:06:44
  - It is an ideally suitable story for a Mexican soap opera -- Katerina, Tue, August 05 2003, 6:06:11
    - It sure is! -- Peter van der Hoog, Wed, August 06 2003, 3:14:35
      - Re: It sure is! -- Todd, Thu, August 07 2003, 11:29:21
        Re: It sure is! -- Peter van der Hoog, Thu, August 07 2003, 13:31:37
        Re: It sure is! -- Todd, Mon, August 11 2003, 12:36:55
        Re: It sure is! -- Peter van der Hoog, Mon, August 11 2003, 17:43:38
        Re: It sure is! -- Todd, Tue, August 12 2003, 15:22:40
        Re: It sure is! -- Peter van der Hoog, Wed, August 13 2003, 7:17:28
        Re: It sure is! -- Todd, Wed, August 13 2003, 8:33:04
        Re: It sure is! -- Peter van der Hoog, Wed, August 13 2003, 8:58:30
        No memory problems? Are you sure? -- Todd, sceptical, Mon, August 18 2003, 9:13:33
        Very sure! -- Peter van der Hoog, Mon, August 18 2003, 11:27:07
        Re: Very sure! -- Todd, Tue, August 19 2003, 2:53:20
        I think any of the stories happened to Fischer last years can be called such example. -- Katerina, Mon, August 18 2003, 4:39:27
        Re: I think any of the stories happened to Fischer last years can be called such example. -- Peter van der Hoog, Mon, August 18 2003, 11:40:31
        Why less nice memories? -- Katerina, Mon, August 18 2003, 11:54:27
        Re: Why less nice memories? -- Peter van der Hoog, Mon, August 18 2003, 12:05:52
        Sorry, but -- Katerina, Tue, August 19 2003, 4:58:13
        Re: Sorry, but -- Peter van der Hoog, Tue, August 19 2003, 7:27:00
        Re: Sorry, but -- Katerina, Tue, August 19 2003, 8:38:51
        TAWU (NT) -- Katerina, Mon, August 18 2003, 4:10:47
        What???? (NT) -- Todd, Mon, August 18 2003, 9:04:32
        It is translation from Russian �� -- Katerina, Mon, August 18 2003, 10:22:24
        Paranoia is contagious -- Margaret, Wed, August 20 2003, 13:22:49
        How about mental docs, Rita? -- Todd, Thu, August 21 2003, 2:59:38
      - No. not all -- Katerina, Mon, August 18 2003, 5:17:20