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	Bobby Fischer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fischer and others alleged that because of the number of "Russian" players involved in the tournament (the Soviet Union dominated international chess competition throughout most of its history), it was possible for them to agree on short draws among themselves and concentrate their full efforts on the non-Soviet contingent.
		Fischer, who insists to this day that he is still the World Champion because he never lost a title match, demanded that the organizers bill the match as "The World Chess Championship," although at this time Garry Kasparov was the recognized FIDE champion.
		Fischer's sudden re-emergence was apparently triggered when some of his belongings, which had been stored in a Pasadena, California storage unit, were sold by the landlord who claimed it was in response to nonpayment of rent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bobby_Fischer (5103 words)

	Searching for Bobby Fischer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Searching for Bobby Fischer is an acclaimed film of 1993 based on the life of Joshua Waitzkin.
		The title of the film is a metaphor about the character's quest to adopt the ideal of Fischer and his determination to win at any price.
		Fischer has cited the movie as just another example of a "Jewish conspiracy" to make money off him and sully his reputation at the same time, on the grounds that the film's producers used Fischer's fame to promote the movie yet paid him nothing for it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Searching_for_Bobby_Fischer (930 words)

	Filmtracks: Searching for Bobby Fischer (James Horner)
		Searching for Bobby Fischer: (James Horner) Perhaps the most well developed and respectful film ever made about the game of chess, Searching for Bobby Fischer is still first and foremost a movie about human relationships.
		A complex but magical product, Searching for Bobby Fischer would demand both an atmospheric and character-centered approach from composer James Horner, in addition to some of the sugar-coated Hollywood drama that the composer was starting to insert with greater ease into his scores by the early 1990's.
		From beginning to end, Searching for Bobby Fischer shares many traits with In Country, remaining slightly beyond reach for most of its length while hinting at the glorious finish that would eventually enchant you once the primary characters gather at a distant place to have questions and aspirations answered.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/searching_fischer.html (821 words)

	Searching for Bobby Fischer (Josh Waitzkin) Trivia (March 11, 2006)
		Searching for Bobby Fischer really begins in 1972 when Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky in the World Chess Championship Match in Reyjavik, Iceland, then disappeared from chess.
		Searching for Bobby Fischer was released on August 11, 1993.
		When he was interviewed on a radio show, he actually had the Searching for Bobby Fischer DVD in front of him, watching or had just watched it.
	www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Lab/7378/searching.htm (1691 words)

	Title: "Searching for Bobby Fischer" - Topics: Sports/Chess; World/Canada
		Bobby Fischer is Josh's hero, but by the end of the movie, Josh shows his father and his opponents how to put the game and the pressure to win into perspective.
		Bobby Fischer was one of the greatest chess players of all time.
		Fischer, and his apparently miserable and dysfunctional life, are the risk for Josh.
	www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/searching-for-bobby-fischer.html (509 words)

	Searching for Bobby Fischer
		The title of the book and film alluded to the chess world's obsession with finding Fischer, the elusive chess player who vanished in the aftermath of his world champion title victory in Iceland in 1972.
		"He (Bobby Fischer) was obviously a genius and he's got quite a lot of madness tied into his genius, and they go hand in hand.
		When Fischer was a child it was chess, chess, chess, chess.
	www.bobby-fischer.net /Searching_for_Bobby_Fischer.htm (766 words)

	Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		All this and he was basically self-taught! Fischer was quite simply the most extraordinary phenomenon in the history of the game and a man who single-handedly raised the world profile of the game.
		But regardless of your views of his most recent conduct in particular, the fact that Bobby Fischer was one of the greatest chess players this world has ever seen cannot be disputed.
		The events of Bobby Fisher's life are seen to have taken place in the recent background or else referred to directly as Josh's story unfolds.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=3401&SID=2&PID=224060 (1887 words)

	Searching For Bobby Fischer Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley, and ...
		This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of Searching For Bobby Fischer.
		Yes, it is. Bobby Fischer was when his mother moved the family to a small apartment near Ebbets Field.
		Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before him and found at its center...
	www.script-o-rama.com /movie_scripts/s/searching-for-bobby-fischer-script.html (3369 words)

	DVD Review: Searching For Bobby Fischer
		"Searching For Bobby Fischer" is the first of his two directorial works, and although it does get a little slow in spots, the majority of the movie is an excellent piece of work.
		Although the transfer for "Bobby Fischer" is not quite perfect, it's pretty stunning at times.
		Final Thoughts: "Searching For Bobby Fischer" is an excellent movie, but deserving of a special edition, which it definitely doesn't recieve here.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews/bobbyfischerdvd.html (673 words)

	Searching For Bobby Fischer (1993)
		Searching For Bobby Fischer is about their heartwarming journey of discovery, as a father and son learn the one thing neither can afford to lose: their love for each other.
		Searching for Bobby Fischer definitely has some flaws, but overall it offers an interesting and entertaining story that's told competently and compellingly.
		Searching for Bobby Fischer appears in its original theatrical aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /bobbyfischer.shtml (1431 words)

	Searching for Bobby Fischer - On the Internet
		A British grandmaster chess player is convinced that an anonymous player he has been engaged with -- and getting soundly whipped by -- on the Internet is Bobby Fischer, arguably the greatest chess player of the 20th century and certainly its most enigmatic and charismatic.
		ICC officials told NewsFactor Network that there have been Bobby Fischer hoaxes before -- two involving amateurs with computers and one involving a grandmaster -- but that this claim has the ring of authenticity.
		Short had heard the rumors of Fischer playing on the ICC, but said he was skeptical, even when confirmed by his friend, Greek grandmaster Ioannis Papaioannou, who claimed to have played Fischer.
	www.newsfactor.com /perl/story/13430.html (606 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Searching For Bobby Fischer (1993)
		Searching For Bobby Fischer is chock-full of excellent performances, from Joe Mantegna, Laurence Fishburne, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley and the wonderful portrayal of Waitzkin by Max Pomeranc, who had a short career that seems to end at 1995 (according to IMDb).
		After watching Searching For Bobby Fischer for a minimum 8th time (we've lost count, but it's at least a once a year ritual), I can positively say we are still not bored with it.
		SFBF inspired her to learn chess, but it helped teach me how to keep winning in perspective.
	digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=303 (991 words)

	SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER
		Bruce and Fred think Vinnie is ruining Josh's chances of becoming the next Bobby Fischer by teaching him bad chess tactics.
		SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER brings you inside the mind of genius and the expectations generated from this sort of discovery.
		In between the family drama, Josh narrates the tale of Bobby Fischer, the chess uberkid who was the best player in the world and then fell off the face of the planet.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsS/f_searching_bobby.html (715 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Searching for Bobby Fischer (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Bobby Fischer was arguably the greatest chess player of all time.
		There is a cautionary moment when Fred Waitzkin sees his first professional chess tournament - an ill-fitted room filled with players, mostly men, mostly silent, bending over their boards as if in prayer - and is warned that this is the world his son will inhabit.
		By the end of "Searching for Bobby Fischer" we have learned something about tournament chess, and a great deal about human nature.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19930811/REVIEWS/308110301/1023 (771 words)

	The Elegant Variation: SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER
		Fischer has descended into madness, anti-Semitism and vitriolic America-bashing, so it's easy to forget what he once was, and how for a brief period in the early 70s, chess was white hot with popularity.
		Not long before the match, Richard Nixon explained his Madman Theory: the best way to get the North Vietnamese to negotiate was to convince them that he, the man with his finger on the nuclear button, was so obsessed with communism that he would do anything to stop the war.
		Fischer had acquired a similarly irrational reputation for "inflicting financial and career damage on himself on failing to win concessions".
	marksarvas.blogs.com /elegvar/2004/01/searching_for_b.html (1409 words)

	Searching for Bobby Fischer Soundtrack Reviews @ Movie Music . com
		Probably one of the most emotionally stirring and uplifting "buddy" films of all time, Searching for Bobby Fischer is about a young child prodigy chess player, who works himself up to becoming one of the best players in the nation.
		Along his journey, he attempts to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of former fellow prodigy Bobby Fischer.
		Though the mystery is never truly solved, he meets two very influential people who teach him the ways of becoming one of the greatest chess players in the country.
	www.moviemusic.com /comments.asp?mm=searchingforbobbyfischer (353 words)

	Amazon.com: Searching for Bobby Fischer: DVD: Steven Zaillian,Max Pomeranc,Joe Mantegna,Joan Allen,Ben ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In "Searching for Bobby Fischer" there is a sweeping camera shot that begins with a dark shot of a hallway ceiling then floats through an archway into a huge, empty hall filled with dozens of chess boards ready for play.
		Searching For Bobby Fischer is the best chess movie I've ever seen, and you don't have to know anything about chess to appreciate it.
		It's not actually about searching for the real Bobby Fischer, though the narrator does tell us quite a lot, as this story unfolds, about Fischer, his rise to championship, and his disappearance.
	www.amazon.com /Searching-Bobby-Fischer-Steven-Zaillian/dp/6305910340 (1985 words)

	JIVE Magazine Forums - No more searching for Bobby Fischer
		After decades of evading the public eye and U.S. justice officials, former world champion Bobby Fischer — possibly the best and certainly the most eccentric chess player ever — has been taken into custody by Japanese immigration after allegedly trying to leave the country with an invalid passport.
		Fischer, 61, was detained at Narita Airport outside Tokyo while trying to board a Japan Airlines flight for the Philippines on Tuesday, according to friends and airport officials.
		It was not immediately clear if Fischer would be extradited to the United States, where he is wanted for playing a 1992 chess match in the former Yugoslavia in violation of international sanctions.
	www.jivemagazine.com /forum/showthread.php?t=8026 (539 words)

	Searching for Bobby Fischer
		The movie's stance toward Fischer is guarded, its respect for his achievements mixed with concern about the toll matching those achievements might take on a person.
		But nowadays the idea of modeling a promising young chess player after Bobby Fischer seems not very different from that of helping a young football player follow in the footsteps of OJ Simpson.
		The headlines Fischer makes nowadays are for violating international law and calling up radio stations around the world to vent his rabid hatred of Jews.
	www.adamcadre.ac /calendar/11228.html (1715 words)

	Searching for Bobby Fischer on DVD - The MoviD
		Searching for Bobby Fischer is a poignant study of the difference between parental idealism and proper parenting, the movie is also an observantly witty portrait of a precocious child who is still, after all, a child, and still eager for the joyful discoveries of youth.
		When Josh begins honing his talent, playing a speedy version of the game called "blitz" with hustlers and hobos, his father decides to take him to world renowned coach Bruce Pandolfini, who claims Josh may well be the second coming of chess legend Bobby Fischer.
		But family struggles ensue when the mother worries that in cultivating the genius, they may be hurting the child.
	www.chesscentral.com /dvd-chess/searching-bobby-fischer.htm (338 words)

	Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		What does bother Bruce about Josh is his playing with the local chess hustlers like Winnie, Laurence Fishburn, in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village which, in Bruce's opinion, is far to fast and doesn't give young Josh time to develop his all around concentration and understanding of the game of chess.
		Powerful movie and very intense for the young boys and girls in it in how they drive and push themselves to be the best at the game of chess and at the same time putting themselves in danger of sacrificing their one and only childhood to do it.
		Josh Waitzkin did reach the top back then when the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer" was made in 1993 and is still there some ten years, and dozens of tournaments, later but he did it without losing both his childhood and his kind heart and sensitivity for his fellow man by doing it.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0108065 (609 words)

	Searching For Bobby Fischer
		Fred Waitzkin was smitten by chess during the historic Fischer-Spassky championship in 1972.
		Searching for Bobby Fischer is the story of Fred Waitzkin and his son, from the moment six-year-old Josh first sits down at a chessboard until he competes for the national championship.
		All the while, Waitzkin searches for the elusive Bobby Fischer, whose myth still dominates the chess world and profoundly affects Waitzkin’s dreams for his son.
	www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/0786193123.html (198 words)

	Searching for Bobby Fisher \| MetaFilter
		I used to really like Searching for Bobby Fisher when I was younger, but for some reason I always thought he had disappeared or something mysterious.
		Heh, I was actually planning on doing the 'Bobby Fischer' Mefi post at some point, hughbot.
		Thought it was interesting how many Russian players that Fischer accused of rigging tournaments in the seventies admitted that they did just that.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/21771 (690 words)

	Searching for Bobby Fischer (Josh Waitzkin) by Edward Winter
		Sure enough, Fred Waitzkin’s Searching for Bobby Fischer (Random House and Bodley Head) is an enchantingly truthful account of the career of his young chess-playing son Josh.
		His own interest in chess resulted from the ‘Fischer explosion’ of the early 1970s, and he started playing in Greenwich Village: ‘On that first occasion, I played against a pimply adolescent who after 20 minutes caught on to my methodical bob-and-weave style and began to read a newspaper’ – page 13.
		Then there is the spectre of Bobby Fischer, whom the author makes an unsuccessful attempt to locate, though this is not the best part of the book.
	www.chesshistory.com /winter/extra/waitzkin.html (891 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Searching for Bobby Fischer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It's the kind of game in which any brainy kid who's good at speed-chess receives the accolade "The next Bobby Fischer," uttered with nodding finality in reference to the only American world chess champion of the past century.
		Seven-year-old Josh Waitzkin (Max Pomeranc) is one of those kids, and Searching for Bobby Fisher, based on the memoir by Fred Waitzkin, recounts what happens to the family in the wake of discovering Josh's genius.
		The villain of the piece is an awful, smug little kid with a sneer on his face and a big puffy shirt, and this kind of reductionism doesn't work for otherwise intelligent and well-observed material.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/s/searchingbobbyfischer.q.shtml (246 words)

	impulsegamer.com - Australia's best PS2 & PC Reviews
		Beginning with a montage of documentary footage of American chess champion Bobby Fischer we are left with no illusions of the importance this ancient past time will have on the characters of Paramount’s Innocent Moves.
		Joshua Waitzkin is a child prodigy in the ‘art’ of chess, and it is his journey in discovering his own abilities while maintaining his relationship with his father Fred which is central to the themes of this feature.
		The Bobby Fischer analogy appears throughout and lends some pathos to the life metaphor that is chess.
	www.impulsegamer.com /igversion01/dvd/dvdsearchingforbobbyfischer.htm (292 words)

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