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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Fischer anecdote from Dershowitz Reply #5 - 05/13/14 at 20:58:14	Post Tools	Print Post
	As hard as it is with a Fischer thread, please let's keep politics out of this thread. If you really want to discuss politics on this site, go to the "chit chat" section, not a chess section.


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Keano God Member Offline Money doesn't talk, it swears. Posts: 2928 Location: Toulouse Joined: 05/25/05 Gender:	Re: Fischer anecdote from Dershowitz Reply #4 - 05/13/14 at 20:20:13	Post Tools	Print Post
	The Nobel prize ceased to be relevant many decades ago in my opinion, too many blatantly poor and downright wrong decisions.


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ReneDescartes God Member Offline Qu'est-ce donc que je suis? Une chose qui pense. Posts: 1240 Joined: 05/17/10 Gender:	Re: Fischer anecdote from Dershowitz Reply #3 - 05/11/14 at 19:36:30	Post Tools	Print Post
	Yeah. The only thing I can think of is that the Nobel committee really intended the prize for the American people, for electing a black president. That would make some sense, since his election marked significant progress in a world-historical problem stretching over hundreds of years. Chessbase actually did run an April Fool's story like that about Fischer...
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Jupp53 God Member Offline be Posts: 988 Location: Frankfurt/Main Joined: 01/04/09 Gender:	Re: Fischer anecdote from Dershowitz Reply #2 - 05/11/14 at 18:25:34	Post Tools	Print Post
	Obama did get this Nobel Prize. So there's no more 1st of April necessary.

	Medical textbooks say I should be dead since April 2002. Dum spiro spero. Narcissm is the humans primary disease.
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ReneDescartes God Member Offline Qu'est-ce donc que je suis? Une chose qui pense. Posts: 1240 Joined: 05/17/10 Gender:	Re: Fischer anecdote from Dershowitz Reply #1 - 05/09/14 at 23:58:28	Post Tools	Print Post
	I'm sure Fischer just didn't want to make Elon feel bad. Last April 1, Fischer was awarded the Nobel Peace prize.
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GeneM Senior Member Offline Tournament winner gets two fun filled knights! Posts: 303 Location: near Seattle WA USA Joined: 01/12/08	Fischer anecdote from Dershowitz 05/09/14 at 23:06:42	Post Tools	Print Post
	In his book "Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law", famed defense attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz recounts the only time he met Bobby Fischer: Fischer was at staying at a place called Grossinger's where he was training for his upcoming WCChamp title match against Boris Spassky. Dershowitz and family were staying there too for Passover. Dershowitz received a note from Fischer asking to meet, which Dershowitz was happy to do. Fischer asked Dershowitz if Dershowitz could figure out a way for Fischer to copyright the moves of his chess games. Fischer also asked whether Dershowitz would do this without charge to for Fischer. Dershowitz found the question interesting in terms of the law. So Dershowitz agreed to research and write a legal memorandum for Fischer if, in return, Fischer would play one quick game of chess with Dershowitz' son Elon. Fischer responded: "I'm not a circus performer. I don't perform for children." With his offer rejected, Dershowitz told Fischer to find another lawyer and to pay him the going rate. Dershowitz left and never saw Fischer again. I wonder whether Fischer might have made a huge mistake in rejecting Dershowitz' offer, because a couple decades later Fischer's legal troubles with the US federal government might have been more manageable if he could have again called on Dershowitz, based on goodwill built with Dershowitz and son Elon. By the way, Americans who think they understood court trials such as the Mike Tyson rape trial and the Klaus von Bulow attempted murder trial and the O.J. Simpson murder trial, might think differently if they read this book of Dershowitz'. Prosecutorial misconduct occurs on a scale that would make a even a cynic say "Wow!". Dershowitz barely discusses the fact that these prosecutors are virtually never punished for their crimes, as if they work in a zone that is off limits to legal punishment. Ironic.

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