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I don't believe in hero worship.

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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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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I am boring. I am boring!
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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All my games are real
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Chess demands total concentration
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I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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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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Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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