Who was Bobby Fischer?

On October 17, 1956, people called it “The Game of the Century”, others called it just the greatest game ever played.

On that day, 13-year-old Bobby Fischer’s legacy started after defeating Donald Byrne, one of the greatest chess players of the 1950’s. His statement after winning such an amazing game?

“I just made the moves I thought were best. I was just lucky.”

Bobby Fischer pondering moves

Bobby Fischer was ranked the number one chess player by the FIDE (World Chess Federation) for almost six years in a row, winning just about every championship he went into following up to that title. He was the youngest grandmaster at chess, at only the age of fifteen. Then at the age of twenty, he got the first perfect score ever seen at the U.S. championship.

He was considered the best chess player of his time, and can be argued the the best ever to play.

Well, most people considered this, but this was the time of the Cold War, and so tensions were very high with the Soviet Union, and they had to step up to the United States’ world champion. Spassky and Fischer met as delegates from their respective countries in Iceland to play for the title of world champion.

The games were intense, Spassky starting with a lead on the first two games, when Fischer forfeited the second because he did not agree to all the cameras that were on the table. People wanted to watch from all over the world. After the twenty one games that were played, Spassky won 3 games, Fischer had one 7, and there were 11 draws.

Fischer's Soviet opponent, Boris Spassky

The chess championship between the tense countries sparked a large interest in chess in other countries, but after the intense face-off of the two cold war countries, Bobby Fischer’s chess career slowed down. Fischer and Spassky remained friends, and after an unofficial match between the two, Fischer had a dispute with the U.S. government concerning taxes on the match winnings. After this, Fischer left the States, moved a lot of places, but eventually stayed in Iceland, basically becoming an anti-american, writing plenty and said of anti-american statements to the public over the radio.

The only notable thing he did after he had left the United States was that he patented a way of timing turns of chess, to keep a time restriction. This way of turn timing is used in tournaments today. He also made up a new way of playing chess, called Chess960, which isn’t widely played, but is still known today.

Fallout: New Vegas Overview and DLC

Fallout: New Vegas is a game in part of the Fallout series. It is a role-playing game that was developed by Obsidean Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game takes place in the year 2281, 204 years after the Great War that turned America into a wasteland. In the game you are the Courier, who was on his way to deliver a package from Primm to New Vegas where you were intercepted by a gang and shot. A robot victor dug you up and that's where the game starts. There are many abominations(creatures) that you can run into in the Mojave Desert, where New Vegas takes place. The hardest being deathclaws. Deathclaws do a lot of damage and are very tough to
kill. There are many factions in New Vegas, the major ones are
the NCR(New California Republic), Caesar's Legion, Robert House, and Yes Man. There are many main quests you can do and many side quests. The game takes a lot of time to finish especially if you want to do all quests. There is also hardcore mode that makes it very realistic to where you can get dehydrated, you have to also sleep and eat or else you'll die.



Fallout: New Vegas DLC
Honest Hearts

In the Honest Hearts DLC you go to Zion Canyon with a small faction the Happy Trails Caravan when you get intercepted by a tribe the White Legs and they kill everybody but you, if you survive, and then Follows-Chalk takes you to his home. After you will do some quests then in the end of the DLC you fight the White Legs and Caesar's Legion.


Dead Money

In the Dead Money DLC you, the courier, gets sent to the Sierra Madre casino by following a radio broadcast that leads you there. The Sierra Madre, located in the city of the dead. It's grand opening never happened because the bombs had fallen, freezing the city in time. Your goal is to get a team together and get into the casino. It is very difficult and takes a lot of time and patience to complete. It is by far my favorite DLC in any game that I have played.

Old World Blues

Old World Blues the name explains itself. In this DLC you get sent to Big Mt. where before the war is where the greatest scientists lived and experimented and made things. A group of those scientists had put their brains in computers and when you get sent there they took your brain. Dr. Mobious had stole your brain and you go off wandering around Big Mt. fighting off lobotomites, robo-scorpians and more. When you finally get your brain back you either decide to kill the group of scientists or convince them to not experiment in the wasteland.


Lonesome Road

The Lonesome road, the 4th and final DLC in Fallout: New Vegas. In this DLC you travel into the Divide. Where you spend your travels finding Courier six, Ulysses. The walk on the road in the Divide is a long and treacherous one, you facing the elements of the Divide, from deathclaws to the Marked Men. The long walk on the road ends when you find Ulysses before he's about to launch a nuclear warhead into the wasteland. You can convince him to partner up with you as you kill Marked Men who try to attack. In the end you can chooses to disarm the missles, launch at the NCR, launch at Caesar's Legion, or at both. The Lonesome Road is by far one of the greatest DLCs of all time in my book.

Has anybody played New Vegas or any other game in the Fallout series? If so what was your favorite part/thing?