Bobby Fischer Enjoys Breaking Chess Players' Egos | The Dick Cavett Show
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- American Chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer discusses what it takes to be a grandmaster in Chess and his past tournaments and experiences.
Date aired - August 5th 1971 - Bobby Fischer
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
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Who is your favourite Chess Grandmaster?
Fabiano Caruana
Well, Fischer
Rashid Nezhmetdinov. Though not a grandmaster, he should be. If it has to be a GM, Viswanathan Anand or Alexei Shirov.
Fischer.❤❤.
@@BPETRONIL007 How lad
His body language says it all, with one arm behind the chair it reeks of full self-confidence.
@Andrew Yes, he was socially anxious/awkward but clearly had remarkable confidence in his ability
Didn’t seem socially awkward to me. Actually seemed really chill and a bit outgoing. He’s in front of a huge audience on national TV. Forgive him if he doesn’t suddenly turn into Dave Chappelle
@@topbins1391 MANE!!! WY ALL DA WYTE PIECES GOTTA FIRST? DAS RAYCIZ MANE!!
@@swcpugilist Have should you behave when you're the smartest man in the room and everyone is aware of it ?
You have to play their game a bit or they think you're an arrogant ass. That's "social awkwardness".
Stop glazing
Fischer had it all, good looks, genius and a killer instinct...and Cavett was a great interviewer!
The laughed at him back then for working out when he just sits around playing chess all day, nowadays all the pro gamers have personal trainers, nutritionists...
I wonder what a gaming nutrition expert gets paid to keep the funions and Mountain Dew flowing
He was way beyond his time...
Yup. They laugh but in truth, chess requires great mind concentration and working out actually helps your brain works better.
They laugh because they likely don't work out, play chess, or any sport, or eat healthy, anyway.
@@zul2788 Yes. Plus working out allows him to be able to sit for 5 hours. You have to be in shape to sit for the conversation to be strong. He seems like a very nice man. Also he seems shy and a loner.
It's funny; Fischer makes fun of Spassky at the beginning, but he consistently ranked Spassky as one of the top ten players of all time. They had a great respect for each other.
He's his biggest rival, wasn't he?
@@raven-a not really, he's just the second best.
@@tonyliu9493 who js the number 1 rival of bobby fischer?
@@alcxile3723 his own mental health
He didn't really have any as far as I know. But if he did, it'd probably have been Petrosian. Fischer himself said that he was the toughest of his Soviet contemporaries to beat.
A journalists nightmare. Someone who is incredibly terse with responses. but dick was a total pro! Was able to constantly snap back with new questions.
Terse or blunt?
I consider it rude. You go on a show, make conversation. I have the upmost respect for the early Bobby, but I think he made Dick talk too much and that runs down the show.
@@GyrosHunter Maybe he was a bit nervous or just not comfortable. So tell me, how do you act when you are in front of cameras and a few dozen people around the country are listening to you, especially after the media has written BS about your career?
@@SuperOlds88 I am very outspoken ;)
@@GyrosHunter he has often said that he doesn't like cameras. He was always just a chess player, never wanted the fame and interviews and all that celeb stuff.
" the greatest pleasure, when you break his ego is where its at"
"All is ego, all is vanity."Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is no greater feeling than to take a man’s soul right in front of him, and then to see him break down inside at the sight of you with it in your hand”
-Bobby Fischer (probably)
Died at age 64 the same number of squares on a chess board
poetic
Damn 🔥🔥
He is goat
Technically there's more than 64 squares on a chess board
When he started playing tournament chess and later became the top ranked player in the US,
he wasn't too happy that the organizer of the tournament was keeping the majority of the profits and he would be paid barely anything for winning.
He was a big draw for tournaments and people were showing up to see him and see him play.
He forced the organizers to raise the winner's share by letting them know, unless the winner's share has a good chunk of cash, he wouldn't show up.
Thanks to him, top rated chess players make good money now and they hold him in reference.
He didn't beat his chess opponents, he destroyed them.
After he got through with them, they realized that didn't know that much about the game as they thought they did and gave it up.
awesome
Absolutely true
Top chess players today are able to make a living out of the game thanks to him
The greatest. Rest in peace bobby. Thank you for the inspiration to work even when all is against you.
Bobby Fischer seemed like such an interesting guy
Yes he was, if you're aroused by virulent anti Semites.
@@ralphdavis9670 Crazy geniuses with bad ideas can still be interesting.
@@VideoAmericanStyle Dr Mengle will see you now. Bring the kids, especially twins.
@@ralphdavis9670 We can either learn and try to understand why people grow up to do or believe awful and crazy things, or we can ignore and dismiss it and wonder why it keeps happening again and again, to our peril. Identifying someone or something as “interesting” doesn’t mean you like them or the things they have done.
@@VideoAmericanStyle I'm going out to hug some proud boys.
when an interview pro interviews chess pro..it's gold... thank you so much for the uploader...for all chess enthusiasts like us hearing this legend is just pure gold
"When you break his ego is where it's at." - That's pure gangster.
I respect his savage
Great, fantastic and immortal Bobby Fischer!!! Respect forever!!!
Not so much respect when he became a massive racist and antisemite 😅😅
5:58 Legends Were Waiting For This Moment
OMG the good ole days I lived through ! NICE ! Bobby F. Was of rock star status at the time ! His mother could not convince him of anything, super stubborn like her, I guess. Handsome gentleman at the time.There is a documentary out there which is epic about his life.
There is probably 100 documentaries about him
GOAT of chess!
Not really
@@VfBlerf4Life Yes really take a look at the 2895: th-cam.com/video/z2DHpW79w0Y/w-d-xo.html
Undeniable
Man I didn’t grow up back then, but I have always thought that dick cavvett is the best interviewer of all time
I hope they post the full 1972 interview when he's wearing the pink suit.
i'd freaking love to see that
where is this interview?
Hopefully they do it next year for the 50th anniversary.
DICK CAVETT was the Thinking Man's interviewer and talk show host. The best ever.
More Fischer!! I know he appeared one last time, on the Dick Cavett Show, clad in a pink suit.
@Woelie Yeah, I only saw a fragment of it in the HBO-documentary about him. Wish I could find it as well... I think it may cost money to purchase; I'd gladly pay for it myself if I could find it. :)
Pink? I thoug it was red
Supossedly there are 4 appeareances
@@marianogonzalez9248 "In our three encounters, I became quite fond of him." -Remembering Bobby Fischer, article written by Dick Cavett.
@@marianogonzalez9248 I mean, it is both red and pink. The shirt is pink, at least.
Great video about a genius. Fischer left his mark on professional chess like no one before him.
Most impressive chess player of all time for sure.
No question
absolute chad
cucked a whole empire
minus all the criticism I given Fischer he is still my favorite chess grandmaster
He already knows he’s the best in the world
I believe he was already ranked 1 in the world for some time. He just wasn’t finishing championship tournaments.
At the time, he was head and shoulders better than anyone else in the world and for about 10 years. The Russians had no chance against him by 1972 despite all their collusion and attempts to prevent him from having his day. To this day he has highest Elo rating (2893) attained of all time late in 1971 during the time he crushed consecutive Russian super Grandmasters 6-0. Bobby only lost 3 games against the next best player in the world, Boris Spassky, out of 21 games played in the championship match of which he won 6 games. Two of the games he lost was because he forfeited the second game of the match by not showing up and the other loss was from blundering a drawn position by aggressively going for the win by sacrificing material in the first game. Only his third loss was without controversy, so he effectively won the title won 6 to 1 not counting the 12 drawn games...
@@OlJackBurton Would've loved if Tal had retained his health in that time period. Having a non-Russian play at such a level was awesome, but Tal had some of the most imaginative attacking mind. It would have been great to see them both at full capacity.
@@OlJackBurton How was his elo 2893? It was 2785 what conversion method are you using
@@johnnybaker347 2893 is the Chessmetrics calculation on Fischer, and obviously not Elo rating.
Bobby seems really tall, and so he has a big brain. He started real early as well and as indicated made chess his whole life!
He has a very Norman Bates like quality about him...fascinating guy tho and of course one of the best to ever play the game..
Bobby was the best Player of all time.
The best thing about this interview is the interviewer.
The Greatest man of Chess no one even matches his gift
At that time chess was Fisher and Fisher was chess. “Breaking their ego is where it’s it” Pure gangster mac.
Fischer is far more Interesting, well spoken, wittier, and better dressed than the present-day players...
I remember this when I was a kid
Fun fact: Bobby's father wrote a review of the entire encyclopedia.
@nick moore-davis Yes. "Test Borings in the Brittanica" by Paul Nemenyi.
@@EGarrett01 I don't think it has been confirmed that Nemenyi was his father.
@@Vingul He was a paranoid nuclear physicist with OCD, was the only guy around his Mom at the time, looked exactly like Bobby and even sent her child support. It's pretty obvious.
THE. You think there is only one encyclopedia?
@@MrShanester117 Yes. "The" is a common way of referring to general reference books since they contain heavily overlapping factual information and thus should have similar content. "The encyclopedia," "The dictionary," etc.
Great interview
I can see his point about the lighting. If you have to sit there for that long it won't be a joke.
Is it impossible to make annoying lightbulbs which flicker on purpose? Of course not
i don't know if he's like me but i know my eyes are very sensitive to light. what other people call just right for lighting i call too bright. maybe it's the same for him?
The most talented!!
Legendary Bobby 🌸
the interviewer really came up with good questions
Legend
I know he’s socially awkward, but I find Fischer pretty funny and entertaining
He didn’t seem awkward to me. He was just answering the questions. He actually seemed like he had a good sense of humor and a bit of arrogance about him, which is appealing in my eyes. The people laughing at him for working out to stay in shape for chess had no idea that he was being serious. People understand it now & they didn’t back then. He was by far the smartest person in the room
If this is socially awkward, u have a problem
@@iuzitipo5732 I have a problem
Yeah he’s pretty charming. You can tell he doesn’t love talking endlessly, kind of a quiet guy, but still charismatic.
Bobby Fisher was a GENIUS.
Unfortunately, the elite of the triangle and the eye destroyed his professional career.
Can’t speak out against the synagogue of Satan
Nah chess is boring, that's all, Bobby said it himself. There's a whole lot of more interesting games nowadays.
@@raven-a that or just faster delivery mechanisms. regardless of the medium, celebrity is celebrity.
Lmao. So you’re as paranoid as he was, huh?
@@forrestrichard8133 who shouldnt be?
A legend
9:06 oh man I wish I had that kind of swagger and smarts
A great man RIP.
Lol a great chess player. Do not associate ones achievements with their character.
@@tombystander don't be a easily manipulated idiot, there was nothing wrong with his character.
@@blablableh724 there was plenty wrong with his character!!
Agreed but lost his sanity at some point.
I feel like he would’ve been a mob boss if he didn’t get into chess. He says he would’ve got into sports but…. He’s just got a certain character… I think he’d be some sort of gangster lol.
He sounds more like Nicolas Cage than Nicolas Cage.
Yeah lol
He had a great ego back then unfortunately he went full blown crazy later in life
@Arcade Um, no, he was crazy later in life, bottom line. He went into full-blown schizophrenia. Don't make excuses for him just because he was great at a board game.
@Arcade Maybe, I don't say fischer is mad. But he has some really terrible ideas that personally I don't like.
@Arcade He publicly supported the attacks of 9/11 so .... there's that
Interesting take on the physical factors in chess. You have to keep yourself in shape in order for your circulatory system to be able to keep pumping adequate amounts of blood to your brain, to keep yourself intensely focused for 4-5 hours. That's why people's prime fades away in their 40-50.
lol this man what i heard about him is a awkward genius man but all i see now is a handsome genius funny man i like his laught sorry for him that he live alone and broke
Leggo my ego.
I had no idea Adriano Celentano was a chess prodigy in the 70s
Chess players really do need a lot of stamina. On a official tournament it is known that chess players burn up to 6,000 calories in one day! Dont forget that the brain is the organ that requires the most energy.
The reason they burn so many calories is because they walk around for 4-6 hours straight in a classical match
@@lucmermans37 hope youre kidding…
Sugar!!! That's why Carlson drinks orange juice. Full of sugar but acidic. Tums?
@@lucmermans37 Yeah, walking frees the brain
The same applies to poker pros - guys like Gus Hansen is in incredible shape understanding that those long hours at the table can mentally wear you down and all the running and endurance exercise he does is a way to maintain focus during tournaments.
4:30 this is quite a telling few seconds haha. what an interesting man
I am a huge fan of the chess game and I do know Bobby Fischer, 😅 well not personally. But for some reason, this is the first time I've heard his voice and I gotta say it's not what I expected. Even his character is different from what I imagined. Looks can be deceiving indeed.
Bobby smiles like Oskar Wilde
Don't tell HIM that!
The Bad Boy of chess !! Now there's like an oxymoron for ya LOL
5:56 daaaaamn, that is a cold-blooded assassin!
he single handedly smashed
the soviet machines and no
one else has done it again
he destroyed nation's team
@7:30
The reason older players fade is losing their Stamina....on an eventual show at 28--- claims he wants to play 30 more years...his physical conditioning was mocked years ago when he played by ignorant media in the 70's.... Greatest player EVER SEEN
The reason that older players fade is because you’re mental prowess starts to diminish around 40-45. Not because they can’t sit down anymore
Fischer was quoted as saying "I'm not a genius chess player, I'm a genius who happens to play chess".
LOVE❤ IT!!🎉🎉🎉
LOVE ❤ THAT QUOTE! TRUE THAT, 4 SURE! RIGHT?!
IF YOU LOOK INTO HIS BIOGRAPHY - REEKS OF COVERT BS! I'M JUST SAYING, RIGHT?!
I TRY HARD NEVER TO MAKE COMMENTS UNLESS I AM CONFIDENT BASED ON FACT- TO EXPRESS AN INFORMED OBSERVATION OF SAID FACTS, AND ONLY THEN.
IN THE SPIRIT OF
OCCAM.
PS
SS FOR ALL CAPS- POOR EYES ; )
PLEASE TO FORGIVE ; )
T.Y. !😊
The comment about being logical and leaving your ties on the floor is interesting. Morphy, the 19th century American world master, would apparently leave his shoes lined up in a perfect circle in the middle of his bedroom so you could quickly grab any pair he wanted.
Omg he is spitiing golds thanks ggod I saw that
I like how Bent Larsen is just considered a Russian because he was in the candidates tournament
With this typically Russian last name at that
I presume Larsen is Lars son? I knew a Scandinavian by the name of Lars Wallin. @@vibovitold
@@jameshogan6142 yeah, the same idea as behind "Johnson" etc. in English and plenty of other languages too
It was Lars I was thinking principally as in Lars Porsena, an Etruscan king who fought against the Roman empire. We see it also in Olaf and Olaffson a Norse name and also an Icelandic GM. I think the suffix was introduced into England via the Vikings. @@vibovitold
i always wondered if the war Room would seek his advice
I'm watching the Fisher vs Spassky movie now, and wanted to see if his personality depiction is accurate. I think Spassky respected Fisher was a natural. I know little bit about Fisher's style, and it reminded me of earlier figure, and I don't like that style that much to try to use personally, though it works for his talent which is more expressive for his command of pieces...which is maybe highest level chess.... Kasparov...I respect a lot in style to try to emulate, for determination to bypass opponent and conquer grid positions. Fisher is great study in alienation, historically though.
It is now known that the best thing to do to keep your mind sharp is exercise.
The price of genius
Fischer gives me Adam Driver vibes here.
Pity Bobby didn't seal the point about the physicality of chess. Maybe the study wasn't done back then with the figure of around 6,000 calories a day. But he could shut the crowd up with something more , he didn't give a crap I suppose.
I don't believe chess really burns 6000 calories per day. Rather he should point to studies that show sitting for too long to be as unhealthy as smoking... and if I remember correctly one of his issues with the way chess is conducted is when people were smoking near the table.
That’s a way overblown estimate of dietary needs to play chess. Elite military units don’t eat for days and execute missions to the tee carrying 80lb rucks
He did.
@@desmondstephen9942 I don't wanna die from someone second hand smoke either.
@@desmondstephen9942 It can. The theoretical physicist, John Newman, or one of the Manhatten dudes said the same thing. They could eat anything they wanted.
I would give anything to play a game with Fischer even that i would have been destroyed 😂
Tom Hardy would be perfect in a movie about Bobby's life
Nicolas Cage. Two looks like two drops of water.
@@pingukutepro Not when he was Bane
Jake Gyllenhaal in my opinion
I'm curious if you're aware they did a biopic of Bobby Fischer semi-recently with Tobey Maguire. It bombed in the box office, so idk if we'll see another one any time soon, but Tobey did a surprisingly good job once I got over Bobby Fischer looking like spiderman.
I TOTALLY AGREE!
2 Gentlemen at their best.
07:08 How to build strength for chess? When you're sitting for 5 hours, it helps to work on your glutes. Get on all fours and kick your leg out. Here, let me demonstrate for the audience.
He is a chess god…
Is this channel ever going to show Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason and/or Art Carney? I don’t have the Decades network.
Prime Carlsen Vs Prime Fisher, Dream match for every Chess Fan ❤️
Carlsen would win. They have had 50 years to study everything Fischer would do.
@@MrShanester117Yeah, I saw Carlsen talking about Fischer random, I believe it was, and he said that they have only 15 minutes before a match to consult with a computer for lines that work for their position... My god, I'm glad they had no machines way back.
bobby fischer
5:47
Man. That was like pulling teeth. DC did well.
Look at how many people in the past are not zombies like people today!
Interesting........
Give him a computer and a year and he would be on top playing Magnus.
Best idea! OMG 💣 can you imagine....
Bobby Fischer vs. Magnus Carlsen for the World Chess Championship!! It's the equivalent to a Mike Tyson vs. Muhammad Ali in boxing and I would watch every move....
Crazy guy, but something amazing about him.
Idiots always tend to call geniuses "crazy"
@@rokanza2293 ignoring medical advise that would save your life. That is my definition.
@@SirPeter6464 he was just exercising his free "CHOICE" to refuse medical treatment. It's his right. Chances are good he could have wound up on kidney dialysis for the rest of his life........and maybe he didnt want to do that. You may not agree with his decision, but does that mean he shouldn't have made It?
@@catherinehazur7336 People have the right to commit suicide by any means of their choice.
@@peterh1353 there is a big difference between suicide, euthanasia and refusing medical treatment, (even if you know it will bring on your death) or refusing heroic measures. Not the same thing at all. Some of us are in the latter two categories, but would not stick our heads on a gas oven or put a loaded gun to our temple and pull the trigger, nor would we make that decision for another human life or groups of human beings. See what I mean?
Bobby did not commit suicide. He just refused further treatment. Unlike many, He did not like or have a high level of faith and trust in the medical profession, so he decided to opt out of further care. In full blown kidney failure, with zero kidney function, Without ongoing kidney dialysis 3x a week with no transplant it takes about a week to 10 days to pass from uremic poisoning. Bobby made his decision as he was entitled to do. Nobody did it for him. RIP.
Bobby knew
His demise was truly sad.
Fischer was a real sicko a-hole.
@@ronbirnbaum1968 So youre just going to say that huh? No evidence, no nothing, just a baseless and no doubt highly opinionated claim. Youre trying to make people upset i can tell.
@@Surr3alll Hahaha, there is an abundance of evidence out there if you want to ruin Bobby Fischer for yourself. He was a great chess player, but it doesn't correlate with being a great person.
@@Surr3alll he was an outspoken anti-semitic wdym
@@sohrob1 yet again just saying stuff with no basis. Its a pretty serious thing to say, you need a basis.
So this is what Stockfish looked like before the singularity
If you put him and Brady side by side. If you ever had to guess who is the Quarterback among those two. I'm sure you'll pick Bobby
Title: 5:47
Fischer has (had) very similar mannerisms to Dirk Nowitzki.
The genius, the goat….
GOAT
Please post the interview where hes wearing the red suit.
He goes give off strong future lunatic vibes
It’s unfortunate he couldn’t connect with someone or Be in a relationship. It might have helped him. It’s tragic how he lost his mind in his end game.
he got with Miyoko Watai before he died
Well put
Very true and sad 😔
Sophie, his girlfriend was Miyoko Ono.
@@AhPhoey much later in his life.
5:49 Charles-S-181 brought me here
Jordan
Brady
Gretzky
Woods and Fischer ! 👍
What a Chad 🔥
Nickolas Cage-esque
Bobby and Paul Morphy were the greatest chess players that ever played, Bobby beat 3 of the top grandmasters in the world at that time easily, Taimanov he beat 6 - O, Bent Larsen 6- O , Tigran Petrosian 6and a half, 2 and a half.Then went on to beat Spassky in the world championship .
it's hard to compare Morphy, who was brilliant and dominant, but played in the era when chess was a hobby and time control wasn't even used (chess clocks appeared later) with modern era players who competed when chess was already a professional discipline and a full time job with lots of overtime (for a world class player).
Seems super sane What happened