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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
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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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 held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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Chess is like war on a board
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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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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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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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All my games are real
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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Chess demands total concentration
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
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I don't listen to weakies.
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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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