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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
Genius
Greatest
Probably
Morphy
Chess

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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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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
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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 know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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I am boring. I am boring!
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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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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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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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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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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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I was never invited to the White House.
Bobby Fischer