Child Genius

If anyone watched that programme the other night about that kid who could play the piano, i didn't know weather laugh or cry!?!? Laugh at the fact that his case proved that the majority of human beings are being dummed down and not taught nearly enough, or cry at the fact that his control freak of a mother has pretty much stopped any chance of that kid having anything close to a social life. Anyway, here's a short list of some other child genius'....

BOBBY FISCHER

Bobby Fischer was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1943. He had learnt to play chess by the tender age of six and by January 1958 he had won the U.S. Championship making him the youngest person ever to do so. Fischer tried for the world championships at just 17 years old and lost in the final to his so to be chess Nemesis Boris Spassky. Know for his stubbornness and refusal to play by the rules, Fischer was fast becoming the bad boy of Chess. In 1972 he eventually won the World championship, defeating Boris Spassky. Fischer's win was a momentous victory for the United States during the time of the Cold War: the iconoclastic American almost single-handily defeating the mighty Soviet chess establishment that had dominated world chess for the past quarter-century.

A brief tribute to Mr. Fischer....

It all went a Pete tong for 'ol Bobby after that. He was arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber and was apparently tortured at the hands of police. Subsequent radio rants against Jews and US government officials and another arrest at a Japanese airport for a dodgy passport have put Bobby firmly in the Tormented genius bracket......

Here he is again, now looking like a homeless person....



Bobby Fischer had a reported I.Q. of a 184 and also had an incredible retentive memory. Rather bizarrely, Mr Fischer was also immortalized by rap group "Dilated Peoples" in their Eminem dis track titled "The Search for Bobby Fischer".