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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
Illinois
Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
Concentration
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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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 usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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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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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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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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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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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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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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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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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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