AStraight from the Herbert W. Armstrong cult booklets, which Bobby Fischer had long since been reading (since 1962, possibly earlier). For Bobby Fischer's critics, I recommend reading the Herbert Armstrong Library for a much more insightful elaboration on Fischer's new found belief system and views toward women, their place indeed being assigned by God as “in the home,” and scroll down to:
“True Womanhood”
“The New Feminism”
Read. Enlighten yourselves as to what the young cult member Bobby Fischer was parroting.
See “Bobby Fischer Chess Hall of Shame, False Accusations of Misogyny”
Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, New York Sunday, February 16, 1964 - Page 22
Woman's Just Pawn
Bound to Lose in World of Chess, Champion Bobby Fischer Says
By Earl Caldwell
In the wide world of chess, a woman is bound to be a loser, according to Bobby Fischer, a bona fide winner.
And Fischer is in a position to know. He's the young man who six years ago, at the age of 14, won the first of a half dozen U.S. chess championships.
Not only that, the boyish-looking blond talks about the current world chess champion as though he were just a cut above the 60 opponents he took on last night in a visit to Rochester.
“Chess,” Fischer says, “is something that is out of a woman's line.” He listed a number of reasons but ended up putting it like this: “A woman's place is in the home and chess is a game where they just can't excel.”
ABOUT WORLD champ Tigran Petrosian, Fischer doesn't waste any words. “I think I can take him.” This may be something of a compliment because Fischer is a fellow who talks about “smashing” opponents.
Confident Fischer is, but he's a realist, too, and says it will be some time before he gets a crack at the champ. Again, he puts it bluntly: “The Russians have the title and they are not anxious to lose it.”
Since winning his first title back in 1958, the slightly-built New Yorker has alternately been tabbed as being a genius and highly temperamental.
He brushes the genius bit off, saying he just has the “natural skill”for chess. He also lets it be known that he works at it, almost constantly, but adds that he still enjoys playing.
As for his temper, he attributes this to the press—“That some reporter had his story written before he talked to me.”
BOBBY WAS in Rochester first to lecture and then take on 50 players. The exhibition was sponsored by Kodak Park Recreation Association. However, Fischer proved such an attraction that 60 players brought their chess boards and they weren't exactly patsies.
Fischer's only loss of the evening was to Greg Grant, 17-year-old high school pupil from Jamesville, near Syracuse. Five draws were achieved by Dr. Thomas Noonan of 3715 Chili Ave., Chili; Clarence Hurtubuse of 56 Groton Pkwy., Henrietta; Gerry Lubberts of 70 Yarmouth Road; Donald Reithel of 60 Putnam Road, Ontario, and Dr. Edwin Lefferts, 113 Pontiac Drive, Irondequoit.
