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When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Bobby Fischer

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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
Chess Player
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Chicago
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.
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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
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I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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