{"id":260,"date":"2008-01-22T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2008-01-22T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T10:38:00","slug":"bobby-fischer-dead-at-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Fischer Dead at 64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/34808366-742089.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/34808366-742047.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking at my art you might be surprised to find that I have an above average interest in the game of chess (I joke, but I do&#8230;) Bobby Fischer was without a doubt the greatest &#8211; and saddest person to ever play the game at its highest level. I&#8217;m sure the newspapers have the full story, so I&#8217;m going to pass on re-telling the whole thing. <\/p>\n<p>Overall the life story of Bobby Fischer is a sad story that curiously is being played out in a similar parallel in the life of Britney Spears. Before you snicker and think that BF was some kind of fool &#8211; he was just the opposite a superior complex thinker who literally was driven over the edge by his own mind.<\/p>\n<p>When you look at Fischer, you see a man whose world outside of chess never became the extension of what he saw in a complex &#8211; but highly structured game. In the end, the messiness and randomness of the world will only remember him as someone who fell from the highest highs &#8211; to become a powerless eccentric.<\/p>\n<p><i>Bobby Fischer, April 28, 1962. (John Lent, Associated Press \/ April 28, 1962)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at my art you might be surprised to find that I have an above average interest in the game of chess (I joke, but I do&#8230;) Bobby Fischer was without a doubt the greatest &#8211; and saddest person to ever play the game at its highest level. I&#8217;m sure the newspapers have the full story, so I&#8217;m going to pass on re-telling the whole thing. Overall the life story of Bobby Fischer is a sad story that curiously is being played out in a similar parallel in the life of Britney Spears. Before you snicker and think that BF&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=260\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bobby Fischer Dead at 64<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[136,149],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}