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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
Chess Player
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
Chess
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I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
Bobby Fischer
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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.
Bobby Fischer
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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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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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I was never invited to the White House.
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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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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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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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I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
Bobby Fischer