walter dietrich wikipedia

let's cheersto bobby fischer, yeah? - here's to bobby b. f. - check. - mate. - [chuckles] - hello. i'm rich fulcher, and today we're gonna talkabout bobby fischer,

king of the chess people. it's 1972. bobby fischer is, like, 29 years old, and at the time, he had won the u.s. open championship and was an international grandmaster. but he wasn't just a normal chess player. he was going,put, put, put, put, put, check! woot, woot, woot, checkmate! that was when he feltmost comfortable in life.

and yet, russia had wonthe world championship for the last 24 years. like, russia, russia, russia, russia, can--russia! and russia used thatas sort of a pr campaign, like, we are the kings. we are not only communists, but we are the intellectuals of the world because we do chess.

the world championships are in iceland, and boris spassky, backed by the russian government, was like, bobby fischer is too young and inexperienced for someone like me, the world champion. here's the thing, fischer hated russians, and he called them filthy pigs. so it was much more than just a chess match. the cold war is happening. life magazine called it the match of the century,

and in the retrospect it was, because it was the matchof the century. and then fischer didn't show up. he was still in, uh, new york, and he said, i don't want to play in this match 'cause it's not enough prize money. it's not enough! he was all talk. he wasn't, like, ready to perform

for, like, magic people. but he gets a phone call from henry [bleep] kissinger, the secretary of state, and he said, uh...hi, this is ken-- this is henry kissinger saying that you need to get your butt over to iceland now. so he finally shows up in iceland, and spassky's like, fine, great, let's get started. but fischer was like, there's too many cameras.

there's, uh-- the audience is too close. the chess board is too shiny. the lights are shiny. but fischer finally agreed to play, and in america it was shown on bars throughout the country. so you would go into a bar, you'd see chess and notthe new york mets, not the...klondike...bars.

- but what would you dofor a klondike? - i would do anythingfor a klondike bar, except wikipedia my dingus. - [laughs] - and so,the world championship was a best out of 24 match. the first game was weird because there's cameras everywhere. [whimpering gibberish]

it was like, they're too close! and fischer made a rookie move, like, he went and got an outlier pawn with his bishop, and spassky surrounded it with his bishops. whoa. and he lost big time. the second match came around, and spassky was there, and he goes, where is he?

fischer was staying in his room and saying, i will not go out unless the cameras change. and he was thinking that they would do it, but they didn't. and then fischer forfeits the match. hrrump! that's how they did it. and he's down two-nothing, which is pretty [bleep] bad.

pfft-pfft-pfft. - why is all the ice gone?where did all the ice go? - i just want some free flowers.what? - all the ice was putinto the cooler. - let me tell youabout the ice. you just gotta mix it up! - jeez. - here's the thing. the thing is--- here's the thing.

- no, but whatthe thing is, is, um, i have a flaming dick disease. [laughter] no, i was trying to saythat to be behind two-nothing is a big dealin these matches. and then finally for the third game fischer said, look, let's go to a back room with no cameras, please. and spassky said yes.

fischer felt comfortable and won. he won! the first time he'd ever beaten fas--fassko-- no, spassky. once he won,it just changed. it's like a turnaround. it's like a blip, blah, aghhhh. it's like a shhh. it's like a pup. it's like a poosh.

it's like a boo-laah! like a put-chi-sha-sha-snoot! it happened. so fischer won the third game, the fifth game, the sixth game, the eighth game, the tenth game. it was so brilliant, spassky actually stood up, he gave a standing ovation.

thank you, thank you. and after the 13th game, the soviets were like, what do we do? they went to the officials and said, bobby fischer is using electronic devices to wane spassky's energy through electronic zappage. so the reykjavik police from iceland came in and took apart everything.

they took apart bobby fischer's chair, bobby fischer's, uh... peanuts. peanuts. and they were thinking, oh, this is gonna fluster fischer, because fischer's very, you know, tumultuous. it didn't at all. he loved it.

and he won after that, and won and won, and pretty much after the 21st match, it became mathematically impossible for spassky to win. and it was like, oh, my god! fischer wins! fischer wins! and it's--he-- he's, like, the world chess champion,

and he's from the u.s. he walks out in reykjavik, there's people everywhere. he's mobbed. fischer was huge, and he became a cold war hero, and he felt like... [making guttural noises]

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