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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

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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Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.
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I am boring. I am boring!
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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 was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them 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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The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
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If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me
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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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Chess is like war on a board
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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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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