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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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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
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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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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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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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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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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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I am boring. I am boring!
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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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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'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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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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All my games are real
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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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I don't believe in psychology.
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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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