{"id":615,"date":"2008-01-19T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=615"},"modified":"2010-01-11T23:26:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:26:39","slug":"filler-by-proxy-lviii-bobby-fischer-for-the-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2008\/01\/filler-by-proxy-lviii-bobby-fischer-for-the-last-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Filler By Proxy LVIII: Bobby Fischer for the last time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This blog has a small, unfortunate reputation for giving <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/05\/first-london-pilgrimage-ezra-pound.html\">anti-semitic nutbags<\/a> an easy ride, so I should mention the death of <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/03\/bobby-fischer-update-icelanders-lock.html\">Bobby Fischer<\/a>, who was the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/08\/filler-by-proxy-journey-to-centre-of.html\">the first ever Filler by Proxy<\/a> way back when  I was desperately scratching around for subject matter.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are plenty of detailed obituaries to choose from. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/people\/profiles\/article3350920.ece\">Andy McSmith in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Independent<\/span><\/a> manages a concise survey of his madness and his brilliance:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It looked like a petulant blunder by the challenger, who had become more    fussy and prone to complain about the conditions under which he was forced    to play chess which each passing year. He had repeatedly accused the    Russians of cheating, and lying. Now he had thrown a match.    <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In retrospect, it looks much more like a clever ploy in a psychological war    against Spassky and the Soviet apparatus. From then on, Spassky never knew    what Fischer would do next, but he hung on gamely as the American repeatedly    beat him. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has a small, unfortunate reputation for giving anti-semitic nutbags an easy ride, so I should mention the death of Bobby Fischer, who was the subject of the first ever Filler by Proxy way back when I was desperately scratching around for subject matter. There are plenty of detailed obituaries to choose from. Andy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3907,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}