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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
Chess Player
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Chicago
Illinois
Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
Morphy
Chess
Genius
Greatest
Probably

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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 know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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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 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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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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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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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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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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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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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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All my games are real
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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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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