{"id":8196,"date":"2014-01-17T05:08:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T05:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/17\/a-death-in-the-family-a-tribute-to-robert-j-fischer\/"},"modified":"2014-01-17T05:08:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T05:08:25","slug":"a-death-in-the-family-a-tribute-to-robert-j-fischer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/17\/a-death-in-the-family-a-tribute-to-robert-j-fischer\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Robert J. Fischer"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Bobby Fischer, supreme master of the 64 squares, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/18\/obituaries\/18cnd-fischer.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_self\">died<\/a> on this date in 2008, at age 64.\nThe day after he died I received this lovely note from my old friend Tom Coleman:<\/span>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">This is a death in the family. I thought of you the moment I heard\nthe news this morning. Though not a talented player myself, at only\neight years old, six years younger than he, I marvelled at his\nprowess as others did over Micky Mantle&#39;s. I never knew bitterness\ntoward my betters at either sports or chess. Many of us who were\nneither as brilliant or disturbed as he still felt his agony, even\nas a half-talented music student can feel Beethoven&#39;s agony even\nafter centuries. He had no heirs in the flesh; genius is no\nevolutionary advantage. All brilliance points to transcendence and\nwhispers of immortality.\n<\/span>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">For Americans of a certain age and a certain bent, it is indeed as if a relative has died. <br \/>Old Tom must have been consorting with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calliope\" target=\"_self\">Calliope<\/a> when he penned his concluding line.\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Fischer, supreme master of the 64 squares, died on this date in 2008, at age 64. The day after he died I received this lovely note from my old friend Tom Coleman: This is a death in the family. I thought of you the moment I heard the news this morning. Though not a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/17\/a-death-in-the-family-a-tribute-to-robert-j-fischer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remembering Robert J. Fischer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}