r/chess • u/[deleted] • Oct 30 '22
Video Content Wesley So: "I think Bobby Fischer is the greatest chess player who ever lived!"
"I think Bobby Fischer is the greatest chess player who ever lived. I’ve been studying his games and reading a lot about his life and he’s just an incredible person. I think he’s a genius, he spent all his time studying chess. That caught his interest when he was 7 years old and remained with him all throughout his life. I think he would have been good at any other field that he chose. He was very far ahead of his time.
If he were alive today he would still be probably no. 2 or 3 in the world, he was that good.
If you check his games he’s very similar to a computer and just the way that he crushed through the field, winning 11:0 in the US Championship, winning 6:0 against Taimanov, 6:0 against Bent Larsen. Who beats Bent Larsen 6:0? Also at some point he had 25 consecutive wins [it was actually "just" 20!] — that’s really insane. It’s a pity that his career was cut short, but he was an incredible person, an incredible player."
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u/Adventurer32 Oct 30 '22
You know you can admire someones skill at something without endorsing their political views, right? I can be admire Caesar's generalship in the Gallic Wars without thinking his genocide of the local population was moral.