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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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Chicago
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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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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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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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 listen to weakies.
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Chess is like war on a board
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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 really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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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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