EGarrett01 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@schallilola Guy Pearce is very interesting. I keep getting drawn back to Ryan Gosling though. Gosling plays psychologically disturbed characters, and physically they resemble each other and Gosling has the same accent and rhythm of speech.

saberous33 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@buzzbox2nd me too!! I would also LOVE to see this entire interview!!Very interesting stuff here...

majotnf (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@JohnQuincyAdams1 yeah, those were all very tragic events that occured in his life, hard to believe it can all happen to 1 man...money couldnt compensate for it... instead of Icelandic generosity, it should have been his own country to show him respect and appreciation even after all these years... but "you're either with us, or against us"... so sad...rip BF

JohnQuincyAdams1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@majotnf ...is truly sad. :( To force Bobby to live in exile from his homeland, friends and family, to have both his Mother and sister pass away while he lived in exile, to have his life destroyed, the pain and suffering he went through at the hands of his own countries government is beyond imagination. The only U.S. World Chess Champion ever, to be so horribly treated, I think is absolutely shameful. :( I am sorry for what they did to you Bobby. Rest in peace.

JohnQuincyAdams1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@majotnf - I don't think Bobby cared much about recognition. He was a very private individual and didn't like the limelight. After he won the Wold Chess Championship, he had all the money he needed. He was not greedy. Offers of millions of dollars to play couldn't sway him and he stayed retired until he played Spassky again many years later, (maybe he needed the money then?). For playing Spassky again, his own country stepped on him and destroyed his life, instead of supporting him. That is...

majotnf (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@JohnQuincyAdams1 sadly, if such recognition existed, I dont think it helped him in anything he did after retiring from chess... only made him more angry with the whole world... yeah, cannot help myself from perceiving him as an old man genius who never fully used his abilities, misunderstood, bitter and finally ...broken... all in all, a very sad story...

buzzbox2nd (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i would love to see this interview in full :)

JohnQuincyAdams1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@majotnf - I have followed Bobby and his chess for many years. I don't know if you are a chess player or not, but Bobby's games were *so good* and *so much better* than anyone else in the world at that time, he was on an entirely different level, another world. Bobby wasn't only a genius, but extremely brilliant and it could be he recognized things that the rest of us don't, or don't have the capability to. Bobby didn't so much die of kidney failure, as much as he died of a broken heart. :(

majotnf (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@JohnQuincyAdams1 Im not sure how much he could actually enjoy his life after that, chess was everything to him, reaching the title he closed one chapter of his life pretty much, whether really enjoying the upcoming years I seriously doubt, being bittered due to all known cicrumstances that concerned him doesnt give you many chances to enjoy your life properly, rather to compensate for what could be different... still, dying at 64 was really symbolic as to the nr of squares on the board...

JohnQuincyAdams1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@jossgower - No one know's if Bobby had mental health problems. That is just repeated gossip. His IQ was so much higher than anyone else's, it is quite understandable that so few understood him.