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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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I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
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I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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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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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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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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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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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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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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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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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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