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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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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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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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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 don't listen to weakies.
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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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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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I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.
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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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