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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

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
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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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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
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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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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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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just trusting in God to give me the moves.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
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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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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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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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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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Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.
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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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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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