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I was thinking about how imporant "Saddoboxing" has become to me and how we've shared alot of world events together. Then I started thinking about all the...
Famous Names Who Have Died Since I Joined Saddo's
Steve Irwin
Bernie Mac
Paul Newman
Michael Jackson
Farrah Fawcett
Diego Corrales
Sean Taylor
Ed McMahon
David Carradine
Jerry Reed
Issac Hayes
Chris Benoit
Ingmar Bergman
Anna Nichole Smith
Don Knotts
I am sure there are more... it just freaks me out.
You can add Steve McNair (former NHL QB) to that list.
I wouldn't be freaked out about it though, tens of thousands of people die everyday. Some of them are bound to be famous.
George Carlin was an old favorite comedian of mine that died last year. You can also add Heath Ledger to the list.
A lot of good fighters have passed away too. :(
Putting aside his faults, Bobby Fischer, dead 2008, reached for the top and got there. He got me interested in chess.
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Originally Posted by CGM
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Weird dude; genius and the best player ever though. You see that movie Searching for Bobby Fischer? Think I'll watch that tonight since you brught him up.
eh, I thought it was a crap movie really, kind of hokey. Nothing to do with Fischer really. But that's just me.Quote:
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Originally Posted by CGM
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Weird dude; genius and the best player ever though. You see that movie Searching for Bobby Fischer? Think I'll watch that tonight since you brught him up.
I do consider him the best all time, in the sense that he was further ahead of his contemporaries than other greats, and that includes Kasparov, who was probably stronger in absolute terms than Fischer. The only player that maybe matched Fischer for absolute dominance was Paul Morphy back in the 1850s
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Originally Posted by CGMeh, I thought it was a crap movie really, kind of hokey. Nothing to do with Fischer really. But that's just me.Quote:
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Originally Posted by CGM
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Weird dude; genius and the best player ever though. You see that movie Searching for Bobby Fischer? Think I'll watch that tonight since you brught him up.
I do consider him the best all time, in the sense that he was further ahead of his contemporaries than other greats, and that includes Kasparov, who was probably stronger in absolute terms than Fischer. The only player that maybe matched Fischer for absolute dominance was Paul Morphy back in the 1850s
Hmm; yeah movie really didn't have anything to do with Fischer but I thought it was good; especially for kids who show an interest in the game. I did lke the occasional footage of Bobby they showed though.
I forgot about Fischer. There's some documentaries on him that's worth watching. The documentary on the Spassky/Fischer championship was very interesting.
In the leadup to the world title match in '72 he was amazingQuote:
Originally Posted by Chris Nagel
in three elimination matches leading up to the title matche, he defeated Taimanov 6-0, Larsen 6-0, and Petrosian 6-2. That's an achievement that was never equalled before or since. Then when he faced Spassky for the title, he made some weird blunder in the first game, and forfeited the 2nd game, to go behind 0-2. He then scored won 5 and drew 3 in the next 8, and the rest is history.
I bought a chess set the other day. I started eating it but it tasted horrible, so I took it back to the shop and said, "Here, this is stale mate."
The shop-keeper said, "No it's not."
I said, "Yes it is. Check mate."
....and you didn't even mention the boxers who have died
lol so cheesy. yet so funny.Quote:
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People die every second.Quote:
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They just keep falling this month.....Walter Cronkite just passed.
Dont really care about the political back and forth.Remember sitting in the living room watching that ol guy as a little kid with the folks.News was news and not some salacious over the top pop infomercial with some chowder heads yelling at the screen ;D
Charles Lewis...aka Mask....the founder of Tapout, and all over the MMA world doing tons of work for up and coming fighter, died couple of months ago. Pretty famous dude; I guess:confused: