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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
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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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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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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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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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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 consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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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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Chess is like war on a board
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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