“Very rarely is a reporter or any analyst spending any time with a player,” Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs said when I asked about this “good guy” phenomenon, “so y’all do NOT know us at all.”
([Ever follow wrestlers? They have all these ridiculous arguments outside the ring, attempting to drum up interest for the "World Showdown" that's always televised at a price (Fischer's '72 match with Spassky, wasn't televised, or did anyone fail to notice that?), and then wrestling circus drums up ticket sales, for "in the ring conflicts" (Soviet selected a location near impossible to attend). I have no desire to follow the wrestling circuses, and besides that, they're fake. Even those rooting and cheering will tell you its fake. I'm sure its easy money, but most people have better things to do than pursue what can only appeal to the most basic brain functions, dulling the neocortex. The Soviet-agitated attacks on Fischer were real, most of it fell behind the Iron Curtain. Most people, worldwide, never saw the vicious spew in Soviet magazines written about Fischer, "official Soviet propaganda". Wrestling is staged and we know its harmless and for profit. Meanwhile, the Fischer-Soviet war grew from the time Mr. Bob was 13 years of age, the Soviet became verbally threatening to him, and Bobby perceived along with thousands of other people from western chess circles, the Soviets were pre-arranging "grandmaster draws" to squeeze out non-Soviet players. (See Edward Lasker's 1950 allegations in U.S. Newspapers on lack of Soviet sportsmanship and how they work as a team to squeeze out non-Soviets. This was before Fischer's time!) Fischer was not "acting" when he protested and boycotted and refused to play during the 1960s. Eventually, the "Showdown" did come to fruition, but by that time, Bobby had came to a point in his life, he didn't much care anymore because of the years of poor Soviet sportsmanship and poor Soviet conduct, Fischer reports during his interview with Johnny Carson, Nov. 1972. But where was FIDE to monitor and behave as a fair mediator, other than changing some rules when Fischer spilled to Sports Illustrated?
When sports celebrities are taking their conflicts outside the ring, an organized smear campaign of a chess player who does not have access to a bottomless pit of capital as the Soviet did, payout and payrolls for the targeted abuse against a chess player who was a kid, and on the Autism Spectrum... vilifying and dehumanizing him for years, organizing mass media into a fury to defame, hoping he drops out ([and for a brief span of time, Fischer did so]) Soviet went to great lengths to prejudice the public, outright seeking ways to disqualify Fischer. What the Soviet were guilty of doing to Fischer, is the poorest example of "Sportsmanship" and the modern chess establishment still justifies their past abuses of power.
The "icing" on the cake? The chess establishment still regards the Soviet cheaters as "the good guy." It is indeed a myth.
Good Guys In Sports: They're a Myth
“Very rarely is a reporter or any analyst spending any time with a player,” Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs said when I...
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Monday, July 12, 2021
