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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

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 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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I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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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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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 my games are real
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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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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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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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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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I was never invited to the White House.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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