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I add status to any tournament I attend.

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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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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 object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I don't believe in psychology.
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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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Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me
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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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