Fischer is compelling because he showed so clearly why these conceptions are wrong. Great genius and profound stupidity coexisted in him. His genius was cognitive, his stupidity was emotional and the profundity of his emotional retardation lent him a false air of psychosis.
More in Knave's Gambit: The Totalitarian Stupidity of Bobby Fischer.
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Thank you, Tom. That article certainly explains my mediocre chess skills....I'm just too intelligent. ;-)
--Daniel J. Andrews
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