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If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

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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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 believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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All my games are real
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just trusting in God to give me the moves.
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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Chess demands total concentration
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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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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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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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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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