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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

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
Illinois
Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
Matter
Duck
Punch
Ducks
Judgement
Delicate
Chess
Knowing

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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 don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's all.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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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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Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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 prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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