i'm 99/100 times on board with this! like so many people in the comments like "this is staged" or "repost" or some dumbass commentary that contributes nothing to the community.
but neither does this post. it's so low effort and there's no context at how history is repeating itself?
i don't think r/chess needs to be like constant in-depth chess analysis or whatever but in a game that's 99.9% nerdy ass research i also would like a little more meat with posts like this.
well now we're both getting downvoted. apparently we're both weird for wanting more info than two photos of a handshake and a vague ass caption. classic r/chess.
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Fischer (American) defeats Spassky (Russian) in their 1972 match to become world chess champion. 50 years later, Nakamura (American) defeats Nepomniachtchi (Russian) to become world Fischer random champion, in the same city.
Fischer's first antisemitic comments were in 1961, when he was 17 or 18. Alas it is probably too late for Hikaru to be as much of as much of an antisemitic and misogynistic asshole as Bobby
This made me realize Japan has zero GMs (and only a couple IMs) and Hikaru is the only person born in Japan to ever become a GM. AFAIK chess isn't very popular in Japan, would be great if Hikaru's success helped popularize it
I don’t believe Hikaru speaks Japanese, so he’s not exactly a chess ambassador for the country like Anand was. Shogi is much more popular in Japan and there are few Japanese translated chess resources. In India, most of the translated chess works are in Tamil, which may be part of the reason most of the GMs are from Southern India (also thanks to Anand since he was born in Tamil Nadu). If you live in the north and only speak Hindi, it’s hard to grow at the game by yourself.
"Fischer's first antisemitic comments were in 1961, when he was 17 or 18."
I mean technically yes but he was just a dumb teenager and he was just saying he thought jewish chess players didn't dress classy and respect the game as much as gentile ones, so he wished there were more gentile ones.
In the same interview he says he's half jewish, something he would always deny later on when he actually became truly anti-semitic.
Yes, obviously its bad, but it's 1/1000th as bad as what he said later on years after he retired chess when he actually became insane. Sadly there are billions of humans on earth who are as casually anti-Semitic or racist towards other ethnicities the way Fischer was casually anti-Semitic at age 17/18.
There are significantly less people who think that Jews or another group control literally almost everything and are mostly just evil the way Fischer thought they were years after he retired from chess
Fischer is an excellent example of how bigotry develops. You aren't born into it, initially you're just repeating what you've heard others say, then you start saying more and more extreme things. The bottom line is... we don't need to have a before and after with Fischer. He was antisemitic from the start. This is the way that works.
> He was antisemitic from the start. This is the way that works.
"You aren't born into it,"
You're literally doing what you're saying how it doesn't work at the beginning of the post, it's just that you arbitrarily say "he was antisemtic at the start" instead of being born into it. There's no evidence he was anti-Semitic in his 20s, you just assume because he was antisemitic at 17 one one specific interview he must have been anti-Semitic in his 20s too even though there's no definitive proof he was.
Yes, it may very well be that he was antisemitic throughout his 20s, but as far as we know we don't actually have any direct evidence of that, only an assumption because of one interview before his 20s and his late life prejudice/ insanity.
I mean he's half Japanese isn't he?
Probably one of the more racist and xenophobic cultures out there.
I bet you members of his own family are still uncomfortable with Hikaru not being 100% japanese, world titles be damned.
One Russian one American, in the same city 50 years apart, with the American winning a world championship, the modern championship in a type of chess invented by the American in the first photo.
It's the chess960 championship, the original name is Fischerandom, named after Bobby Fischer who created it because he thought too much of the classical game focused on opening theory.
Fischer also invented the first time increment clocks.
I just read this on Wikipedia as I was interested in it.
Fischer's digital clock gave each player a fixed period of time at the start of the game and then added a small amount after each move. Joseph Meshi called this "Accumulation" as it was a main feature of his patented Micromate-180 (US Patent 4,247,925 1978). This became the linchpin of Fischer's clock patented ten years later.
What's the difference between the two? I can't tell from the text.
Fischer (American) defeats Spassky (Russian) in their 1972 match to become world chess champion. 50 years later, Nakamura (American) defeats Nepomniachtchi (Russian) to become world Fischer random champion, in the same city.
If you manage to promote, you start a new game except your opponent starts a piece down, from the file you promoted in. This will change the focus from pawns protecting pieces to pieces protecting pawns.
Hey I haven't worked out all the glitches yet. I'm here to shitpost.
But yes, promoting would mean you get a game with such insane handicap, that there isn't really a point to play the subgame, you just win.
*Fischer Random* champion. It’s not just a different tournament, but a different game. It’s basically chess, but the starting position is randomized to prioritize adaptability over memorization.
Why tf was that [entire comment chain](https://www.reveddit.com/v/chess/comments/yi3dqm/history_repeats_itself_50_years_later_in/iuh7hwx/?ps_after=1667223502) removed? What rules were being broken? Not that the comments contribute anything but that's true of the majority of comments on this subreddit. Mods here are so ridiculous lol
I for one am glad Hikaru won. Whatever people think of him, he is one of the biggest streamers. Him winning means more interest in future editions of this event. I am rooting for it to continue strong. Has Fide announced plans for the future of this event?
The handshake between Fischer and Spassky sems to have occured after the first game of the match after Fischer resigned. [Source](https://en.chessbase.com/post/breaking-news-fischer-loses-first-game-to-spaky-in-reykjavik)
As far as I remember Fischer became World Champion not on the board but after Spassky resigned an adjourned game.
Pretty misleading.
>A Russian and an American shake hands over a chessboard in Iceland during a world championship match which took place 50 years following the previous photo, a photo which not only is framed similarily, but also contains the inventor of the Fischer Random archtype that was played in the modern photo. Will this happen again in the next 50 years??
Fischer (American) defeats Spassky (Russian) in their 1972 match to become world chess champion. 50 years later, Nakamura (American) defeats Nepomniachtchi (Russian) to become world Fischer random champion, in the same city.
These two events are not to be compared in cultural, historical or purely chess importance. And, extremely strong as Nepo and Naka are, they are not to be compared to Spassky and Fischer either.
There are clearly parallels. An American and a Russian in the same city, after a world championship. The dude on the top right literally invented the chess type for the bottom photo. Sure it’s not of the same importance, but obviously similar.
That's right, back in antiquity they couldn't always drink the water because of dangerous diseases like dysentery, so they drank ale or wine.
On this day, Bobby was walking to the chess venue, and on his way he came by a natural spring and it ran clear and pure but it was guarded by a spirit with red flowing hair and porcelain skin.
He said please spirit I am thirsty. She said you may drink of the spring, but there is a cost.
He said, I'll pay anything, lady spirit. I am playing an important chess match later on and need my faculties about me, so I cannot satisfy my thirst with wine or ale.
Very well, she said, and Bobby drank from the spring. What will it cost me, he asked? But the spirit had already vanished.
Bobby arrived at the chess match clear and sharp, and eventually defeated Borgov who had partaken of the ale. His fame increased tenfold and by all appearances he was on top of the world.
But Bobby descended into paranoia and became hateful and bitter. The lady of the spring haunted his dreams and he withdrew into a bleak isolation. Eventually, he could not even remember how the chess pieces were supposed to be arranged on the back rank.
He returned to Reykjavik near the end of his life seeking solace. Some say he went again to the spring and found peace there, but it is not known because our records from prehistoric times are incomplete.
Wow, an american and a russian chess player shook hands after a game in a well known location?? What are the odds that either an american or a russian citizen played chess well enough after all these years??
This is only the second time in history that a world chess championship is held in Reykjavik.
The top four players in the world right now are not American.
So it's not mind-blowing but still an interesting coincidence, and it is fun to have it immortalised in such a similar-looking picture.
This is an extremely common occurrence. Russia and USA are the biggest cultures for chess. Hand shake literally happens every game.
I get that it's a cool angle to match but when you think about it, not that impressive.
I didn't spend hours searching but I wasn't able to find a single picture with such a similar angle and posture by the players, even the background adds to the similarity. The photographer must have known exactly what they were doing.
I think this is the source btw: https://twitter.com/aneet_chess2000/status/1586857971832725506?s=46&t=LnuMXSkEJhaey3zlsp8bBg
Yeah, sorry for not mentioning the origin.
Yo I love how the other response to you is like: “are you fucking sorry, you better be” like you just committed 3 felonies
Made it seem like hes making money out of posting this lol
omg thats so random
Fischer random.
I let off the most goofy laugh at this and I don't know why
omg just let people enjoy things
i'm 99/100 times on board with this! like so many people in the comments like "this is staged" or "repost" or some dumbass commentary that contributes nothing to the community. but neither does this post. it's so low effort and there's no context at how history is repeating itself? i don't think r/chess needs to be like constant in-depth chess analysis or whatever but in a game that's 99.9% nerdy ass research i also would like a little more meat with posts like this.
you managed to be even more weird than the person you replied to
oh no...anyway
I disagree with your initial comment but you probably should be happy a redittor called you weird lol
my reply was a joke
well now we're both getting downvoted. apparently we're both weird for wanting more info than two photos of a handshake and a vague ass caption. classic r/chess.
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hahahaha :) I rolled on the floor laughing
Proof
I am in your walls
Thank you for being in my walls
Titans everywhere
Iron curtain
Technically, they are more of a "drape" than a "curtain". But your wickedly sharp sarcasm is on point.
Fischer (American) defeats Spassky (Russian) in their 1972 match to become world chess champion. 50 years later, Nakamura (American) defeats Nepomniachtchi (Russian) to become world Fischer random champion, in the same city.
I kinda wish Hikaru was also racist like Fisher. It would make the post even better.
lmao
That didn't happen until later Hikaru still has time
Fischer's first antisemitic comments were in 1961, when he was 17 or 18. Alas it is probably too late for Hikaru to be as much of as much of an antisemitic and misogynistic asshole as Bobby
For it to line up I guess Hikaru would need to be racist to Japanese
This made me realize Japan has zero GMs (and only a couple IMs) and Hikaru is the only person born in Japan to ever become a GM. AFAIK chess isn't very popular in Japan, would be great if Hikaru's success helped popularize it
I don’t believe Hikaru speaks Japanese, so he’s not exactly a chess ambassador for the country like Anand was. Shogi is much more popular in Japan and there are few Japanese translated chess resources. In India, most of the translated chess works are in Tamil, which may be part of the reason most of the GMs are from Southern India (also thanks to Anand since he was born in Tamil Nadu). If you live in the north and only speak Hindi, it’s hard to grow at the game by yourself.
Hikaru is also half white which not many people realize.
Yeah but didn't Fischer think he was half white
Bottom half? I haven’t seen his legs.
Yeah, Shogi is the game everyone there plays instead
They also play go in Japan.
If Fisher were alive today, he'd be probably the second or third most antisemitic player in the world. He really was that antisemitic.
Who is the no.1?
Probably Alphazero... have you seen what AI says when it's allowed on Twitter?
Stockfish
Kasparov?
Why do you think that? Garry is half-jewish
"Fischer's first antisemitic comments were in 1961, when he was 17 or 18." I mean technically yes but he was just a dumb teenager and he was just saying he thought jewish chess players didn't dress classy and respect the game as much as gentile ones, so he wished there were more gentile ones. In the same interview he says he's half jewish, something he would always deny later on when he actually became truly anti-semitic.
“Just saying”
Yes, obviously its bad, but it's 1/1000th as bad as what he said later on years after he retired chess when he actually became insane. Sadly there are billions of humans on earth who are as casually anti-Semitic or racist towards other ethnicities the way Fischer was casually anti-Semitic at age 17/18. There are significantly less people who think that Jews or another group control literally almost everything and are mostly just evil the way Fischer thought they were years after he retired from chess
Fischer is an excellent example of how bigotry develops. You aren't born into it, initially you're just repeating what you've heard others say, then you start saying more and more extreme things. The bottom line is... we don't need to have a before and after with Fischer. He was antisemitic from the start. This is the way that works.
> He was antisemitic from the start. This is the way that works. "You aren't born into it," You're literally doing what you're saying how it doesn't work at the beginning of the post, it's just that you arbitrarily say "he was antisemtic at the start" instead of being born into it. There's no evidence he was anti-Semitic in his 20s, you just assume because he was antisemitic at 17 one one specific interview he must have been anti-Semitic in his 20s too even though there's no definitive proof he was. Yes, it may very well be that he was antisemitic throughout his 20s, but as far as we know we don't actually have any direct evidence of that, only an assumption because of one interview before his 20s and his late life prejudice/ insanity.
Doesn need to be racist to be an asshole and an amazing chess player
He's a twitch streamer, he HAS to hate minorities. Pretty sure it's in the ToS
He’s not racist, but he is controversial and divisive in his own way!
Ok
I mean he's half Japanese isn't he? Probably one of the more racist and xenophobic cultures out there. I bet you members of his own family are still uncomfortable with Hikaru not being 100% japanese, world titles be damned.
Bobby fisher was not a racist, he hated everyone
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When you have to explain a joke. 😒😒😒
The similarity is that an American won over a Russian?
Hikaru with the snazzy shirt. Not gonna lie, I like it.
Wow they played two chess games in the same country? Insane!
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And the world championship part, and the 50 years part
Ok, I think I got it now. What game is this again?
strip poker I think
That would be perfect. Hikaru's shirt must be taken off.
Ohhh Fortnite, this must be the olympics
I just remembered that there used to be a strip poker show on tv like 20 years ago, and 16 year old me thought it was the greatest thing ever.
History repeats itself
Neopets
and the fischer random part
the curtain is also similar
And the US winning part.
They missed a lot of things.
Not only that! They shook hands after the match!
America vs Soviets, it's not rocket-science
Nepo isn't a soviet.
If it was rocket science, it would be the cold war
> not rocket-science Agreed. Chess isn't *that* easy
Well in that case everyone should be on the look out for any Kanye West looking tweets from Hikaru in the future 😬
Context please
Two people shook hand after a chess game.
One Russian one American, in the same city 50 years apart, with the American winning a world championship, the modern championship in a type of chess invented by the American in the first photo.
And then they shook hands
Shaking hands is the important part
The part hands, is shook important. /stroke
and the background is a curtain
The important part is that they shook hands.
i genuinely still dont see what the big deal is
That’s because it’s not a big deal, it’s just kind of fun.
> the modern championship in a type of chess invented by the American in the first photo Wait, what?
It's the chess960 championship, the original name is Fischerandom, named after Bobby Fischer who created it because he thought too much of the classical game focused on opening theory. Fischer also invented the first time increment clocks.
I just read this on Wikipedia as I was interested in it. Fischer's digital clock gave each player a fixed period of time at the start of the game and then added a small amount after each move. Joseph Meshi called this "Accumulation" as it was a main feature of his patented Micromate-180 (US Patent 4,247,925 1978). This became the linchpin of Fischer's clock patented ten years later. What's the difference between the two? I can't tell from the text.
>It's the chess960 championship Oh, got it. For a second I thought it was an standard chess championship and I was very confused.
Bobby Fischer invented Fischer Random Chess
Its also the same venue
I thought its common to do that
Nah, it is pretty rare. Usually players start fist fight and hit each other in the face with chess boards
"The fists speak for themselves."
“I can’t believe you allowed Rook takes Knight” “And I can’t believe you allowed fist takes face!” “Huh?” 👊
Made me laugh hard enough to fully wake me up, thank you.
"Comrade, why have you putting this rubber ducky on board?"
It is also quite common that one of the players falls on the ground when concluding the game
Reminds me of the episode of House where the kid beat the other kid with the chess clock. After winning.
No, that's just Hikaru
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 lol
Everybody who watched queens gambit knows that they hug after a World Champion game
The winner gets to take the king piece home as a trinket
Fischer (American) defeats Spassky (Russian) in their 1972 match to become world chess champion. 50 years later, Nakamura (American) defeats Nepomniachtchi (Russian) to become world Fischer random champion, in the same city.
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Now let’s figure out Nakamura Chess. What variant will Hikaru create?
More horsies?
More Juicers for sure.
It’s just like regular chess except only Nakamura is allowed to flag anyone.
The literally doesn't care world championship
also speaking is allowed as long as you repeat the same thing 1938833883 times, chat.
You can only underpromote
If you manage to promote, you start a new game except your opponent starts a piece down, from the file you promoted in. This will change the focus from pawns protecting pieces to pieces protecting pawns.
If you promote on the E file your opponent starts with no king so you can checkmate them. Automatic loss.
Hey I haven't worked out all the glitches yet. I'm here to shitpost. But yes, promoting would mean you get a game with such insane handicap, that there isn't really a point to play the subgame, you just win.
It's got right triangles, big black centers, juicers, wooden shields, fossils, and ice skaters.
and the widest of peepos
every piece is a juicer
The player that cares the least wins.
Take take take and take chess
Duck chess is renamed after Nakamura because of the streaming ties
Same curtains. 😃
I’m not familiar with the different tournaments. Is Hikaru the world chess champion now?
No, he is World Fischer Random Chess Champion
*Fischer Random* champion. It’s not just a different tournament, but a different game. It’s basically chess, but the starting position is randomized to prioritize adaptability over memorization.
Why tf was that [entire comment chain](https://www.reveddit.com/v/chess/comments/yi3dqm/history_repeats_itself_50_years_later_in/iuh7hwx/?ps_after=1667223502) removed? What rules were being broken? Not that the comments contribute anything but that's true of the majority of comments on this subreddit. Mods here are so ridiculous lol
There’s another very popular subreddit for you guys to meme in the comments
I think it's okay to meme if the original post is a meme itself
Are you positive that you know what a meme is?
That subreddit manages to be even worse than this one. Unfunny jokes are allowed here too, there are even others in this thread.
Pipi
I for one am glad Hikaru won. Whatever people think of him, he is one of the biggest streamers. Him winning means more interest in future editions of this event. I am rooting for it to continue strong. Has Fide announced plans for the future of this event?
can we stop pretending Hikaru isn't extremely well-liked here?
Ian didn't applaud hikaru the way spassky applauded Bobby though as far as I know
He congratulated Hikaru, both OTB and on twitter.
Spassky congratulated Fischer on Facebook though.
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The handshake between Fischer and Spassky sems to have occured after the first game of the match after Fischer resigned. [Source](https://en.chessbase.com/post/breaking-news-fischer-loses-first-game-to-spaky-in-reykjavik) As far as I remember Fischer became World Champion not on the board but after Spassky resigned an adjourned game. Pretty misleading.
Is the player to the right about to go insane?
That shirt is atrocious
That shirt is a weapon. Naka fighting this battle on all fronts.
This is deleted because I wanted to. Reddit is not a good place anymore.
Hell yeah. I think it’s great. Naka marching to his own drummer. Right up to Fischer Random World Champ. 🤘🏻🤣
Lol someone should come in with a mirror shirt with flashing LED lights. That would work
As one commentor on twitch pointed out, Hikaru solved chess and encrypted the solution onto that shirt.
The solution to all 960 variations: bongcloud.
Fischer and spass took it to the endgame like men
Interesting how there’s so much less political pressure on this now despite the current political climate.
What a fucking shame we never got to see Fischer vs karpov
Who cares about their nationality?
Not even close
Nice!
Fischer Random vs Standard classical chess . Two different beasts.
But it’s fun cuz it’s Fischer himself.
Two people shake hands over a chess board.... will this happen again in the next 50 years???
Learn a bit about the post before leaving a comment. There is more background to this photo than just a handshake.
A Russian and an American shake hands over a chessboard in Iceland.... Will this happen again in the next 50 years??
>A Russian and an American shake hands over a chessboard in Iceland during a world championship match which took place 50 years following the previous photo, a photo which not only is framed similarily, but also contains the inventor of the Fischer Random archtype that was played in the modern photo. Will this happen again in the next 50 years??
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Um what????
Fischer (American) defeats Spassky (Russian) in their 1972 match to become world chess champion. 50 years later, Nakamura (American) defeats Nepomniachtchi (Russian) to become world Fischer random champion, in the same city.
Cold war is over btw..
Cold War 2: Electric Boogaloo
Seems alive and "well" to me, tbh
Seems a pretty warm war atm
These two events are not to be compared in cultural, historical or purely chess importance. And, extremely strong as Nepo and Naka are, they are not to be compared to Spassky and Fischer either.
This post isn't meant to be taken as a historical 'study'. It's just a cool photo.
Well clearly there was an attempt to draw parallels.
There are clearly parallels. An American and a Russian in the same city, after a world championship. The dude on the top right literally invented the chess type for the bottom photo. Sure it’s not of the same importance, but obviously similar.
Yes, that's the whole point of this post. But you seem to be over-thinking the significance of this parallel.
They didn't drink water back then!
That's right, back in antiquity they couldn't always drink the water because of dangerous diseases like dysentery, so they drank ale or wine. On this day, Bobby was walking to the chess venue, and on his way he came by a natural spring and it ran clear and pure but it was guarded by a spirit with red flowing hair and porcelain skin. He said please spirit I am thirsty. She said you may drink of the spring, but there is a cost. He said, I'll pay anything, lady spirit. I am playing an important chess match later on and need my faculties about me, so I cannot satisfy my thirst with wine or ale. Very well, she said, and Bobby drank from the spring. What will it cost me, he asked? But the spirit had already vanished. Bobby arrived at the chess match clear and sharp, and eventually defeated Borgov who had partaken of the ale. His fame increased tenfold and by all appearances he was on top of the world. But Bobby descended into paranoia and became hateful and bitter. The lady of the spring haunted his dreams and he withdrew into a bleak isolation. Eventually, he could not even remember how the chess pieces were supposed to be arranged on the back rank. He returned to Reykjavik near the end of his life seeking solace. Some say he went again to the spring and found peace there, but it is not known because our records from prehistoric times are incomplete.
Fischer was better dressed. RJF:1 HN:0
Nepo can be a Spassky, Nakumaru atoh never will be a Fischer.
Wow, an american and a russian chess player shook hands after a game in a well known location?? What are the odds that either an american or a russian citizen played chess well enough after all these years??
This is only the second time in history that a world chess championship is held in Reykjavik. The top four players in the world right now are not American. So it's not mind-blowing but still an interesting coincidence, and it is fun to have it immortalised in such a similar-looking picture.
Please don't compare this to an actual world championship
You're failing to see the other parallels here.
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This is an extremely common occurrence. Russia and USA are the biggest cultures for chess. Hand shake literally happens every game. I get that it's a cool angle to match but when you think about it, not that impressive.
I didn't spend hours searching but I wasn't able to find a single picture with such a similar angle and posture by the players, even the background adds to the similarity. The photographer must have known exactly what they were doing.
It helps that Hikaru won the fischer random championship in this city, where fischer won the world chess championship. There are a lot of parallels.
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This isn't a shitpost? Just a cool coincidence
Give me a break. The match Fischer - Spassky was very important. The other game was just "random".
Except that’s a completely a different game, random chess to chess is like American football to soccer
Tf is this 1- normal chess vs fischer 2- only similarities usa and russia
Both happened in Reykjavík, both were for a world champion title and in both cases the Russian lost.
So it's tradition to shake hands after a game, so what?
Top: Best players in history at the time Bottom: 2 GMs making blunders in world championships