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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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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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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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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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All my games are real
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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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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 was never invited to the White House.
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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.
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I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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