[ExI] fischer, positive feeback loops

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Sun Jan 30 20:04:01 UTC 2011


2011/1/30 spike wrote:
> Some non-players who met Fischer thought he was retarded.
>
>
> On a lighter note, this morning an American won a top level chess
> championship which included the top four highest rated players in the world,
> along with nine others, in a 13 round tournament:
>
> http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6983
>
> This is the first time an American has been at the top of the chess heap
> since Fischer retired 35 years ago.
>
>


American????     With a name like Hikaru Nakamura????

Wikipedia says was he was born in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, Japan,
to a Japanese father and an American mother. At the age of two, he
moved with his parents to the United States.

So I'll give you half-American.    ;)


BillK



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