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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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Robert James Fischer
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When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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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 I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me
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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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I was never invited to the White House.
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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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I am boring. I am boring!
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Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off.
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Chess is like war on a board
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Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.
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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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All my games are real
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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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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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The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
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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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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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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
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