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Date Posted: Thu, January 16 2003, 8:01:59
Author: Peter van der Hoog
Subject: Dutch documentary on Fischer
In reply to: Todd 's message, "Re: "Bobby was all alone"" on Tue, January 14 2003, 3:11:05

Two days ago I saw very good documentary about Fischer on the Dutch tv. Nothing really new but the production was of high quality with footage I’d never seen before. Comment from several chessplayer, like Sofia Polgar. She says that she regrets meeting Fischer. He was such a hero for her but that image was scattered when Fischer visited the Polgars. They went out for dinner, played table tennis etc. Fischer became angry after Sofia gave a simul in the American club in Hungary. Also comment from Seirawan. He was still positive about his eleven hour encounter with Fischer and dwelled on the sensitive issue why Fischer became anti-semitic. Hans Ree reacts and thinks Fischer went crazy. He refers to the killing of the elephants by jews because the trunk looks like uncircumcised penis. Ree also confirms that at the time he met Fischer in Israel in 1968, Fischer distanced himself from his previous anti-semitism. We knew this already but it’s nice to see the participants on television. Several shots of Fischer walking and he does has a typical walk, always very fast and with a swing in de shoulders, throwing his underleg in front of himself. But describing it so meticulous already produces a caricature. In fact there is nothing wrong with his walking. Also early interviews with Fischer, where he tells he played chess against himself when he was young and that his mother send him to a chessclub. In that interview he makes a very open and friendly impression. Jan Timman understands Fischer’s resentment against the Russians. They made insipid jokes, he says, like if he wanted to meet Goethe. The World champion match against Spasski also comes up. The referee, Lothar Schmidt, tells that he fysically had to drag the two players behind the chessboard. Spasski says that Fischer really was disturbed by the camera’s and that his actions were not directed against him. At the end a quick reference to a possible marriage of Fischer with a Japanese woman but they don’t go any further into that.

When I get time I’ll send you a view pictures of the documentary.

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