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Why not visit the social network setup by the online turn based association for players and webmasters that support this type of online chess. Social Chess NetworkFischer Heading for Hollywood
Well, it had to happen. Hollywood wasted no time in their plans to bring Fischer's story to the Big Screen. Having said that, however, they could not have chosen a better director of the upcoming movie.
Director Kevin Macdonald's first feature, The Last King of Scotland, got an Oscar for its lead actor Forest Whitaker, so he is a quality director ... but let's face it, the Fischer story will be a very difficult story to bring to the screen, IF the production is true to the real life story.
Most chess aficionados know the Fischer story, and how he was a prodigy ... attaining the title of Grandmaster at the tender age of 15, winning the U.S. Championship several times, and of course his successful challenge for the World Championship in 1972.
Of course, later in his later life, Fischer's mental condition caused him to become known as an eccentric and an anti-Semite, frequently going on anti-Jewish tirades ...even though he himself was Jewish. As for me, however, I prefer to think of the accomplishments he made while he could still control his psychological problems. And so too will this new movie, which will focus on his early life and his fabulous accomplishment in 1972.
And perhaps that is as it should be ... focusing on his triumphs, and not on his ultimate defeat.
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