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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 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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I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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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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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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I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
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She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.
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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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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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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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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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I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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