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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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I am boring. I am boring!
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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
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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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I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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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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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
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Chess is like war on a board
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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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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