By way of penance for missing Liberal England off my blogroll for 20 months, I'd like to link to Jonathan's excellent post on Bobby Fischer. Like Jonathan, I was glued to the reports of the Fischer-Spassky match and, as Jonathan observes, it was all downhill for Fischer after that. But what a trumph it was! In Jonathan's words:
Once Fischer got going in the match he all but blew Spassky away.
There is an excellent write-up in the Guardian today. In a piece entitled "Death of a madman driven sane by chess", Stephen Moss quotes the former British chess champion, Bill Hartson saying:
Chess doesn't drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane.
Jonathan Calder touches on that same theme by quoting Dryden:
Great wits are sure to madness near allied
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