Timeline for Why did Bobby Fischer quit chess after the match with Spassky?
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| Apr 11, 2021 at 0:52 | comment | added | BCLC | ... Old RJF on chess. Why Fischer hated chess. Who's the best ever - are you sure? | |
| Apr 10, 2021 at 18:28 | comment | added | rougon | @BCLC It didn't think it was particularly relevant to the question, which is about his interest in competitive chess. | |
| Apr 10, 2021 at 17:52 | comment | added | BCLC | i'm fairly certain there were no chess960 tournaments at the time, but i was wondering about how at least part of the quitting chess was the openings and stuff that eventually led fischer to create chess960. so like did you perhaps think this was not necessarily relevant? or what? | |
| Apr 10, 2021 at 17:46 | comment | added | rougon | @BCLC I am not aware of him actually competing in chess960 tournaments or matches, so while he did release some rules, he wasn't actively playing chess after the match. Also, the question was really about the time period between the two Spassky matches. | |
| Apr 10, 2021 at 17:41 | comment | added | BCLC | why no mention of fischer random/fischerandom/fischerrandom/chess960/chess959? | |
| Dec 24, 2016 at 17:13 | comment | added | rougon | That definitely seems like it could be a contributing factor although a) he might have been doing ok for a while with sponsorship, b) the elements that lead to his break were already in place. | |
| Dec 24, 2016 at 14:01 | comment | added | A. N. Other | Did anyone also consider that after the match he found himself with a relatively big amount of money, at least for those times, after struggling all his youth to live a decent life as a chess professional? I think that this factor is rarely mentioned nowadays. It might be more important that it seems, I think | |
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| Feb 6, 2016 at 4:36 | history | answered | rougon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |