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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
Inventor
Writer
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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All my games are real
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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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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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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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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Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.
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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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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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