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Chess is like war on a board

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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
Chess Player
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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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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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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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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When I win, I'll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I'll give players a chance to beat me.
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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All my games are real
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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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Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off.
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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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