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Chess demands total concentration

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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
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's all.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.
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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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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