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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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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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Body
Mind
Deteriorates

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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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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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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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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.
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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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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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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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.
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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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