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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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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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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 really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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 don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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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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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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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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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.
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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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