Do you think Bobby Fischer may have had Asperger's Sydrome?

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yes,,,,,,,,,,,,and his beautiful games will live forever.

god bless you Bobby.

Documentary on the 1972 match (5 parts):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2dL-TdHRBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE5MLR34VRo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52iJpMZXSHw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFNNhw8PvqI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC1m1En0knQ

There's little doubt in my mind that Bobby Fischer was an aspie. The very fact that he loathed his own country and his own ethnicity is probably typical for this condition. What would appear as self-loathing is really the anger caused by the fact that one is unable to adapt to the group one's in, the anger at not belonging. I know this feeling myself, but I can fight it because I know what causes it. Before I knew what where it came from, I would rationalize this feeling, and nothing good came out of it.
I'm an Aspie myself and I can relate to the person that Bobby Fischer was. I used to play chess quite a lot, though not nearly as well as Bobby Fischer. I'm pretty obsessive myself, and it's all I can do not to clash with whom ever I deal with. He liked to play ping-pong, so do I. Well this last one may be pure coincidence, but I really do think that the rest points to his being an Aspie.

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Forty years to the day since the great man became world champion.
R.I.P. Bobby.
Your games will live on forever.

And yannig, Bobby did not hate his country, he hated the slimy, corrupt government that ran (and still runs) it. He also said that he wasn't Jewish. If he says he wasn't who are we to argue. Having a Jewish mother and father doesn't make him a jew if he decides otherwise.

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I'm an American and I never felt offended by anything I heard Bobby say. I remember everyone was pretty shocked about what he said after 9-11, but if you take the anger out of his voice and listen to the words he's saying, particularly as to his grievances against the U.S and Israel, he wasn't making stuff up. And he wasn't wrong. The U.S. government treated Bobby unfairly, that is to say, the Bush I administration did. Bobby played chess against Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia in 1992. France and the U.S. had the same sanctions in place against Yugoslavia. Boris Spassky, a French resident, went home to France after the match. The U.S. government indicted Bobby, but Boris continued to come to the U.S. to play chess. Bobby had to live as a fugitive in foreign lands for the rest of his life. The anger is justified.

His complaints against Israel, of war crimes in Lebanon as well as against the Palestinians are also accurate. And while the U.S. has vetoed U.N resolutions to the same effect, the rest of the world has voted to condemn Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.

What we need is a Bobby Fischer statue in Washington DC, perhaps in the front lawn or the white house or maybe in the Oval Office. Also, we should get his birthday off. We can call it "truth-to-power" day.

I was always fascinated with Bobby and his ability to play Chess.

A recent documentary came out called 'Bobby Fischer against the world'. Worth checking out if you're interested, its on Netflix last I checked.

Previously I had no knowledge of his personal views or racism, I admired his abilities.
He's definitely a tragic character.
It seems he only got worse in his old age, before passing...very sad.

Keep in mind he grew up long before there was knowledge of, or proper help for those with Aspergers.

I'm also VERY convinced that he had it. I share a lot of the bad traits of Bobby Fischer, except for that I'm not a racist and I don't think the world is out to get me, just a few people Um, let's not forget that chess was his life, almost to the point he was obsessed over it.

I'm pretty confident he was an Aspie.