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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

Bobby Fischer

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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
Chess
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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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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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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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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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