Bobby Fischer and his Dubrovnik chess set
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2012
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The Dubrovnik was released in 1950 when Bobby was seven. He bought one in Zagreb twenty years later and claimed it his favourite chess set ever.
From the documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World. 
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What alot of people don't realize is that he understood the game so well without the help of computers and engines that we take for granted today. He was an absolute legend !
Like literally any other great master before the year 2000 ;)
@@fundhund62 he beat Larsen and Taimanov 6-0. He wasn't like " any other great master ".
@@clayishamoeba2 and he also did it without a coach. and thats why He is the GOAT
@@fundhund62 'any other great masters' were mentored by great teachers. Also they had team to analysis games. Fischer did all things alone. All by himself.
Which is the same as all great chess players do. The role of computers today is completely overstated.
I love the way he moves the pieces. It's so assertive and rhythmic.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
kasparov moves them way more rythemic
+bunny dhanush You can't even spell. shut up
The Business how lame u are, u ugly bitch
You only say that because it's Bobby Fischer
The world hasn't seen enough of you, Bobby. Rest in peace, we miss you.
I miss m so much, every time I play chess and every chess board I buy I see his face, his story is extraordinary and so extremely sad at the same time, bought my last board in Poland....
Yes and off the board he spoke truth.
@@tonyedward6909 He was a genius at the chessboard, but outside of it he said many stupid things, come on. He was not in the best mental state, I think most people would agree.
@@tonyedward6909 absolutely!!!
@@robertochighine2478 if they can't discredit you by calling you insane, if they can't quiet you by freezing your money and or livelihood , if imprisonment does not stop you from speaking truth to power, then they kill you, Bobby predicted his own death most likely he was poisoned.
For those confused when he said, "I dont feel like i played enough chess" he was referring to playing more GAMES, SIMULS, PROVIDING INSTRUCTION, etc. That is very different from locking yourself in your room and going over master games, variation or studying. I think he just wanted to share the game with others more. He liked being alone but us humans are social animals. Everyone needs love.
I don't think love was what he was looking for when he played
Yeah I don't think he was looking for love. He spent too much time practicing and not enough time sparring with other players.
Kenneth bucsko you're a very good chess teacher.
True. He had later said chess players don't love each other. It's a bad crowd. Artists have better friendship
@@mumble97 there weren't too many at his level who would spend much time with him on this. The ussr on the other hand has schools teams of players who were being paid by the state
Anyone that learns another language to read and study his subject in that language is a master. A champion.
You flattered all us immigrants. Underserved compliment.
He wasn’t insane or mad,he just had strong opinion about this world.
He was also old so he wasn’t thinking straight
unkown don’t apologize for an insane person, he was paranoid about Jews and conspiracies all his life for practically no reason
@@a4h426 traumas due to his parents I suppose
@@a4h426 who runs the world Banks
Fischer was right about everything both over the board and under the sun
Just amazed at how on 0:57 after he plays c3 d5, d4 he represented the following ...cxd4, cxd4 by just removing the c-pawns instead of doing the captures. It took me a while to understand what was going on.
After 6 yrs of consisting play I myself was amazed as well haha. He moves the pieces so smooth
That's actually normal if you play and analyse a lot of chess OTB, especially back in the pre-computer days. The Karpov-Kasparov Lyon 1990 televised analysis also features Kasparov doing that stuff, also for pawns on opposing sides e.g. cxd4 exd4, just remove the c and e pawns. Rook captures typically involve removing the rooks facing a particular square e.g. for Rxd8 Rxd8, just leave the d8 piece and have the capturing rooks evacuate the board. Tons of 'premove' shortcuts like that.
There is no way to remove the c-pawn. Queen and knight are guarding the d-pawn. The reason why Fischer took away the c-pawn as far i understand was: to present a theory (which neither you or i know , because we would need the context of that particular game), to say: he would have checkmated the guy if there wasnt a c-pawn there.
@@PygmalionFaciebatYou can see 1. cxd4, cxd4. It didn't get removed it recaptured on d4 after blacks pawn took on d4.
chess is incredibly challenging, you have to love the game to master it which requires tons of hours of study and unless you are a chess prodigy you will hit ceiling at some point. Fischer was obsessed with it and I truly believe he never reached his ceiling before he stopped playing! He was so gifted that like he said, the Russians were really scared of him! RIP Grand Master, your legend will never die!
Makes my mind numb at how brilliant he was at the game...
"I think the gene for being an artist and mentally ill are not just related. They're the same gene." - Neil Hilburn
And what an artist this guy was. Absolute legend.
He had renal issues that affects mental behavior. Probably if he didn’t have renal issues he wouldn’t have had mental behavioral issues.
He clearly doesnt know enough mentally ill people to believe this.
he haven't played enough ... only two trillion times
by not having played enough chess he meant games outside the torunaments or friendly games
Bad Jaeaux I
Actually only about 600 games in tournaments
coming back to this vid again after over a year, dubrovnik is still my fave set. and its because of him
imagine he had stockfish available right there!
I can imagine he starting to study to beat stockfish
@Siddhant Satao who would crush who?
@Siddhant Satao agreed!
@@Maltebyte2 wait are you joking?
@@EIIlast2791 Maybe not if you let the software think for a long time! he would have learnt alot!
I think if Bobby had a healthy family supporting him, he wouldn't have gone mad.
Or perhaps he would have murdered the family.
+Adnan Bosnjak Paranoid schizofrenia is the definition of madness.
Adnan Bosnjak Are you trolling, stupid or just uneducated? Watch some documentaries about Bobby.
YES. ANOTHER NATIONAL SOCIALIST AT LAST
hard to say when that split-personality took over very sad but bill remember all he did for chess,best ever imho
Wonderful art of moving chess pieces
“This is the best set I have ever played on. It is marvellous - Look at these pieces, smooth and light. No hard edges. Beautifully carved. The best set for playing I’ve ever seen.” - Bobby Fischer
Fischer was a genius, as was Paul Morphy.
TALbol tiež génius.
Yeah. And both died crazy.
@@robsmalls9656 Steinitz as well
they were both geniouses and both transcended talents in their own ways. while morphy was just the anomaly that is so good that he has to retire because no one can even compare with him as to how much of a gap he sets among all other players , on the other hand fischer is the kind of genious that is obsessed with the game to the point where he has so much potential and ability that he starts to love and hate it at the same time. truly 2 of the most potential and talented players in the whole chess history
His hand gestures were elegant.
"his genius and his illness were joined at the hip"
He had understandable reasons for being bitter...do some research...nurture some empathy and you will understand where his anger came from...
Johnny Pastrana i think, most famous people who are super successful at what they do have some sort of family problems
Not really any illness. Just high IQ and social skills lacking.
@@johnnypastrana6727 he literally quoted the video. Pay attention...do some listening...and you will understand where his comment came from. Asshole.
I wish there was more video on him, but I miss Bobby. RIP
My favorite player, his greatest contribution IMO was discovering Fischer Random (Chess960). Why only play the classical position (#580 in the list)? Play all the available positions and have allot more fun, and not have to remember opening theory (unless you want to develop it for all those positions). Brilliant. I've been playing strictly Chess960 for a couple years now.
igloo productions Is the 960 chess really that interesting? I love chess but I find that it requires a lot of time and memorization to improve as a player. Thank you
E.S. Slc It's more fun because you are thinking from move 1, and it requires NO memorization, as there is no opening theory (except for position #580 which is the classical position). I've been playing strictly 960 for almost 3 years and I'd never go back to playing just the classical position. A good site to play 960 is lichess.
Thank you for the quick response. I usually play on chess.com and they have a "960" options as well. I will try and see how it goes.
One more question. If I play it with someone in person how do we generate our starting position? Do we just agree on one and start?
E.S. Slc Yes I play live 960 on chess.com too, but I find on lichess.org it's way faster to get a game. About the starting position; as you know online this is just randomly chosen. I've never played 960 in real life but it's also randomly chosen in tournaments, or casually you can just agree on a position. That's part of the fun of it I guess.
i love this video i watch this video everyday
Whats the name of the music in the beginning??
Great, fantastic and immortal Bobby Fischer!!! Respect forever!!!
People are so necessarily mad that not being mad becomes a whole new type of madness
~Pascal
most favorite documentary of mr. fischer
Yes, I do. I'd say the Noj knights look pretty close to Bobby's. There will always be small differences as the knights are carved by hand.
what is the background music called?
"I haven't played enough chess."
*proceeds to never play chess again*
To be legendary at anything you have to be crazed/obsessed with it. All greats were obsessed at their craft. I would like to learn more about this guy and other great chess players. He seems intriguing.
Is that a 20in. x 20in. or something smaller? The surfaces he plays it on makes me wonder about the size but the size of his fingers in relation to the king/queen makes me feel like it's a 20x20
Feels Pretty Good..👍
I met him in the Philippines. He autographed my book - Fischer Teaches chess.
poor Bobby!!! There should be a movie of this marvellous mind.
They are making one with Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer, it's called Pawn Sacrifice. Look into it.
I think the only description of Bobby Fischer is 'The Bruce Lee of Chess'.
The reason I think this is Bruce Lees famous intro piece on Enter the Dragon, Bobby was so at one with the chess that he could 'feel' everything before it happened. RIP Bobby.
Always wondered what this set was called Thanks :). I would like to find one of the USSR "Grandmaster" chess sets from the 1970's Soviet Era. I have seen some replicas but they're extremely cheap and look like pressed saw dust :(
I like his piece
menim indiye kimi baxdiqim menali kinolardan biride Bobby Fischer haqqinda cekilen kinodu.
He's so courteous and at the same time powerful
Gotta love the comments by the press. Jeez.
Such an INTJ.
I found out that in this clip he was actually studying from a Book of Boris Spassky's best games. Before the World Championship Match in which this was filmed, Bobby Fischer had never defeated Boris Spassky.
@@user-ns9xm4gn1j As stated before the 1972 World Championship Match, Bobby Fischer had never defeated Boris Spassky with three wins and two draws. This information is available online refer to: chessgames.com
Is there a video of him talking about his family?
Bobby Fischer will always be the greatest chess player of all time with no doubt
What size was that king ???
"I feel I haven't played enough chess."
"In der Fülle liegt die Klarheit und im Abgrund ruht die Wahrheit." Friedrich Schiller
Do you know the maker of Bobby Fischer's 1970 Dubrovnik set? Knights in the video look a little
different than the Noj.Ltd set.
I want what all men wants but i just wanted MORE!!
Troy famous dialogue, i think they wrote after seeing Fischer perfection/madness
it’s a damn shame someone actually destroyed all of his books that he dedicated so much time on. r.i.p bobby fischer
What do you mean someone destroyed all his books? Could you explain that?
@@joaofelipechertouh4561 later in his life he couldn't afford to pay the rent and his stuff was robbed and sold because of that.
What is the game at the start?
I kniw ur in heaven. Imagination is thr key
"I feel i havent play enough chess" and then comes the troll music lol
What's troll about the music? Have you seen the documentary it comes from?
What is that book he studies?
Quem não conhece a sua história está condenado a repeti-la.
THIS WILL BE THE OPENING SCENE IN THE UPCOMING MOVIE. SORRY FOR THE SPOILER!
As a kid in Ukraine I had a chess set that was definitely Dubrovnik style. It was made from wood.
Yea there are actually quite a bit of those sets in random European homes. Some people have them because they inherited them without knowing how valuable they are.
can you magne the damage he would have done if he had chessbase
Still my best set i ever owned.
you re dead idiot
If Im dead why are you trying to talk to me = )
Is this real fischer?
What could've been.
great ending.
The set Fischer is using is the 1950 not the 1970 Dubrovnik set.
You are wrong. The 1950 knights are different.
The 1970 set has a knight that is stout and the bishops head are wider. In the 1950 set, like the one in the video, clearly the knight is taller and the bishops head are thinner.
John Jabroni ***** John is right. The knight looks clearly like the 1950 version sold here : www.noj.si/?mod=catalog&action=productDetails&ID=181. Then you simply have to check the Dubrovnik II version on the same website to see that the knight head is different and the bishop head wider.
Franck Tafani Yes, the bishops are narrow, but the Fischer's Queen only has five cuts in the crown. The knight looks 70-ish to me, sorry.
I believe the confusion can be explained by inconsistency in production of commercially available low cost Dubrovnik sets in the seventies.
Are 2 set's on this video , 1950 and 1970 version: prntscr.com/5lok9r
how does a man who says his goal is to play a lot more chess retires from chess without playing again. what happened to change his mind?
That's what I want to know. Wins title then disappears. WHY?????
Maybe that is what he meant, if you see his games much later in his life "online games" you will see again that greatness, maybe he just retired so he can play chess, it doesent make to much sense but neither does Fischer
The media paint a pretty negative picture about this guy. They don't really know anything about this man at all. They just judge him based on gossips and rumors and these idiots just gobble them up!
they're not "gossip and rumors" the man was a anti-semite, and there is plenty of video and audio clips to support this. He totally lost his mind in his 20's. the ones that knew him best spoke out about him, calling him totally insane. It's just a shame he wasn't treated medically. we still have so much to learn from such a beautiful mind.
Cliff Yablonski interesting story, must have been a terrible shock for a 10 year old child....thanks for sharing.
that's because they don't really know anything about chess
@Niranjan Rajesh Knocking the pieces over like that to a kid is normal? Severe arrogance, yes he was an asshole, thats just one example, and the countless other selfish things he did, especially in the match with Spassky.
@@kasparov937 says the guy who is a fan of kasparov...
"is your mother still living?".... "then the king moves"
Does anyone know what material his travel board is?
It looks like a vinyl mat.
I used to have one, and it simply rolls up, and you can place it in a cardboard tube.
Was für ein Schachgenie👍
Wie er noch mit Büchern analysiert ist phantastisch.
Was hätte er mit einer Engine erreichen können.
2900 ?!
The highest tournament elo rating score is Fabiano Caruana 8,5/10 StLouis elo 3080! Karpov 11/13 Linares 1994 elo score 3040! Alekhine in San Remo 1930 elo score 3040! Fischer and Kasparov their Best tournament scores only 2990!
The way he moves the pieces is an art! Don't need to be musician or the painter. That's true art! :)
What’s the background music at 0:34?
Background sound was from Bobby Fischer against the world
Un genio
The very best
Maybe on cheesgamesshop Muba?
does any one know what book he is reading while going through the moves?
+Joshua King I'd make a wild guess and say it's some kind of a book on chess openings
+Joshua King It's most likely the "Big Red Book" containing 355 of Spassky's games. It was said while preparing for his match, the book was his constant companion.
That "big red book" was the german "Weltgeschichte des Schachs Lieferung 27 - Boris Spassky".
Spassky's big red book. Many of spassky's games.
🎉
That board Vinyl?
It sure is! Conveniently rolls up, and fits nicely in a cardboard tube.
I used to travel with the same set.
2:19 he wants to play more chess, so he retires and plays none. That's the irony.
She retired from competition but he continued playing chess alone as he did as a kid.
Dexter Haven He meant to play more chess by playing against himself, he'd play the white moves, the black moves... until he checkmates the 'other' guy. That's a world champion vs world champion, fischer should have kept a record of those games and sold it to the world, games full with annotations - no computer assistance, just pure genius.
corkystorky You don't know he meant that. You made it up. If he meant that he would have said it or said practice chess, silly. Not nice to assert interpolation or speculation as fact.
We know the 'facts' yes Fischer left the chess world and isolated himself to play against himself. He did not even bother to think about 'defending' the title against Karpov, and instead made great conditions such as a bottle of fresh baby blood so that the showdown will not go its course. That's who fischer was, until later in 1992 he realized he needed money to live, and insisted he was the legitimate world champion and not kasparov.
corkystorky You forgot that when he played aginst himself, he lost most of those games, so his cofnidence was sapped before 1975.
Fame is a curse so when it feels seductive you better prepare yourself because after the seductive phase it caves in on itself like clockwork
Many believe that genius is touched with madness.
Look at the great painters.
He was just mad? If a completely deceived and blind society judges like this, then he must have been extraordinarily wise and insightful (although eccentric). And that is exactly what he was. You still have no idea what you are talking about!
There is no genius without a touch of madness - Seneca
2:18 This clash of thinking must have torn him up. On the one hand, he wanted to play more. On the other, he refused to defend his title. And he played less chess than ever after saying this!
he just wanted to be loved
lol
Unlike other top chess players including Spassky, he had absolutely no life besides chess that is before quitting altogether.
Prácticamente lanzaba las piezas XD
Fischer at the chessboard was polite, sportsmanlike and honest. Away from the board Fischer was a screwed up mess, who had no clue how to manage his life or his career.. An interesting contrast.
I realize of course that you wrote ''at the chessboard'' in regard to Fischer's ''sportsmanship'', but in fairness, his blatant gamesmanship during the 1972 World Chess Championship during which he walked right past Spassky (without acknowledging Spassky) when Fischer first arrived at the playing auditorium in Iceland, failed to show up for Game#2, demanded that the rest of the games in the match be played in the back room away from the audience and TV cameras, demanded that the TV cameras be turned off during the match, etc., was deplorable and very unsportsmanlike.
this is true ! and most GMs are simular. look at Kasparov, he acted like he was playing an online game with no one else in the room haha he'd walk around, make weird faces and noises haha. just real focused on the game.
@@7Lukibi99Tore7 You forgot to mention getting rid of rows of audience seats multiple times.
@@kasparov937 u should write a book about your hero, the one and only rj fischer.
He simply needed one of two things: a good wife or a good agent. 😆 The latter being easier to find than the former.
I wonder what book Bobby Fischer was studying here?
Spassky's games.
HE IS LOVELY, VERY COMUNICATIVE, GENEROUS WITH EVERYBODY, SWEET, AND YES, A GENIUS!!! I'M SORRY AH...! You are ridiculous.
The way he moves the pieces and slams them down is pathological.
Can anyone tell me the type of playbook that bobby fischer is using that shows each and every move in diagram form? What publishers carry these?
Hes likely playing through Russian games... very often soviet collections.
Weltgescheite des schach- german out of print. Some still available used.
Lul at the people in the comments talking about him as if they personally knew him
U okay?
wait.... what was his last sentence??... 😱😱😱😱
"I feel I haven't played enough chess"
@@rosemariebeneventi1041 after destroying the Soviet chess machine....u say u haven't played enough chess....🙄🙄
Seriously? Bobby??
@@anirbansarkar6027 I'll answer you with another's comment: "For those confused when he said, "I dont feel like i played enough chess" he was referring to playing more GAMES, SIMULS, PROVIDING INSTRUCTION, etc. That is very different from locking yourself in your room and going over master games, variation or studying. I think he just wanted to share the game with others more. He liked being alone but us humans are social animals. Everyone needs love. "
I don't care for that set. I like the standard Staunton look.
Fischer did.
Jonas Žnidaršič I thought for championship or tournament play (when it was possible) he preferred the Jacques. Maybe he preferred Jacques only for that though because he wouldn't want to scratch up a nice Jacques during analysis.
It’s wasn’t so much the aesthetics it was the feel and how the pieces were so balanced. If you always had to be precise and gentle moving the pieces then the set isn’t practical eg useless.
Bobby was a master at one game but not all games. A lawyer and or a salesman out witted Bobby. Bobby permitted some publishing company to Trade Mark his name for only about 10K.
* A lawyer with his brief case can steal more than 100 men with guns.
A sharp judge beats them all.
Clearest chess thinking I ever have studied.
who said bobby fisher had an illness?did they have medical records?or it was just their assumptions?if that is their assumptions then i think it is unfair to the person.
Humans tend to not handle super genius very well . . .
Above all, humans tend to not handle the truth very well. In fact they even hate it. And they despise those who want to tell them about it.
Bobby may habe been saved, this world will is lost and will be judged, and is in fact now on the verge of it - of course without wanting to notice it, as always. Bobby already knew decades ago what he was talking about, although he didn't know enough to be accurately right in all details.
at the 00:15 second mark he almost looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger's son. LOL
He was not ill. Never was.
You don't like what he says....so let's just label him "nuts". Quite standard.
Yes because being anti semitic is okay
@@Bckner Just because you don't agree with someone it doesn't mean they're nuts or crazy.
@@thebigpicture2455 youre crazy if you hate a group of people just because of their beliefs and traditions. Stop supporting anti semitism
Ahh i see now sorry didnt get it😅 too much chaos
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I love how people are aware of his accomplishments but then surprised that he wasn't normal. His accomplishments alone were abnormal. Do you honestly expect a normal person could have done them?
NPC
Where did it go so badly wrong for Bobby Fischer ? Ahead of his time ? Possibly, I doubt if many of todays top Grandmasters could compete with the Fischer of 1972. Who could have beaten him ? Kasparov circa 1990 would have been capable. Beyond that, the strongest programs like Deep Blue, Stockfish and Alpha Zero, would probably been strong enough. Since they must surely be able to think faster and further than Fischer ?
Yes a match with Kasparov would have been close, Garry would have created alot of problems for Bobby as he was much stronger than anything he ever faced.
As for Stokfish and Alpha Zero they would destroy him, in a 100 game match I doubt he could get even 1 win, they're much stronger than he was.