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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

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 was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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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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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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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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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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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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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.
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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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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 don't believe in hero worship.
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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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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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