Mr. Fischer: Random Chess Equity

A Story by Abishai100

A loosely-historical portrait/diorama of Bobby Fischer, American chess-legend/celebrity, whose Cold-War exploits casted him a diplomat of the developing social network/media.

A fan diorama of American chess-legend Bobby Fischer, with info taken and re-presented through the lens of loose historical portraiture.

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Robert "Bobby" Fischer won his first chess-tourney at age 14 and quickly became known as a young chess prodigy who'd grow up to become the real American 'champion' during the Cold-War chess-media intrigue against Russian-master Boris Spassky. Fischer was an interesting man who had an older-age more eccentric behavior lore tied to his name when he resurfaced from hermitage to replay Spassky his Soviet rival.

Raised close to his mother Regina, Bobby noted his mother's gifts and labor-values and felt closer to her than others as he climbed the ladder of celebrity in the United States. He'd even go onto invent his own 'brand' or sub-style of chess, and his younger years was a premonition (arguably) for all this strange Western/American shine.

In his post-Spassky years during the first Cold-War symbolic chess-challenge, Fischer was known to make strange comments in the press and remained true to his belief that his eccentricity was his own/unique fingerprint. His style of chess was inventive, quick-witted, swift and nearly telepathic (sensing the motion-machinery of his opponents with a shrewd psyche as his opponents would seemingly feel) in tone/quality. He was a strong consistent winner as he rose to celebrity as a young-adult.

There was lots for media-IQ for Bobby Fischer as the Cold-War symbolic match against Spassky approached, but the American 'prodigy' seemed to want to maintain his level of self-idealized sense of confidence and privacy. He seemed to however have a quiet if indignant type of respect/esteem for his rival Boris as the journalists took his photo(s).

His epic match with Spassky was symbolic for stalemate-IQ ramifications concerning superpowers finding competition-angst/imagination in almost any kind of international activity (USA-USSR).

Today, computer scientists study and apply chess models/diagrams and arrays of symmetry/asymmetry and inventive piece-position arrangements for offense-defense and have also inspired super-computer chess programs/models (e.g., Deep-Blue, Deep-Thought) that are set against human chess-masters.

I myself (personally) find Bobby Fischer's life/achievements in chess/media quite extra-ordinary and enjoy watching documentaries about the American legend (YouTube) and/or reading excerpts of writings about the great man. It gives me my own sense(s) of confidence/enthusiasm regarding what'll make my chess-play (or ideations of stalemate-chess complexity/intrigue/insight(s)!) more conducive to this new age of social-media (e.g., Facebook-chess) driven global folk networking/socialization/photography (wow).

Maybe I'll get a neat baseball-figurine chess-set/board to synthesize/recreate the 'strategy-imagination' of various iconic World Series matchups (e.g., A's-Reds) symbolic/reflective of competition-stalemate thrill(s).

What Bobby Fischer reminded us with his stalemate-premonition chess-triumph in the iconic matchup with Russian Spassky is that patriotism and politics are nearly 'wed' to personality/media in this inventive era of folk-traffic storytelling and 'personality' driven global culture/drama!

I sometimes make vigilante-patriotism comics/fanfictions online and offer stick-figure sketch-doodles to complement my tales of the 'chess' of modern Earth-society vigilance, arguably a 'legacy' of the human lore created by the Fisher-Spassky rivalry during the otherwise 'dark' Cold-War.