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Chess is like war on a board

Bobby Fischer

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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me
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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.
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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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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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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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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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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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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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