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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
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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I was never invited to the White House.
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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 consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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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 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'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's all.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
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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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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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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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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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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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