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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 prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
Bobby Fischer
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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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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
Bobby Fischer
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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
Bobby Fischer
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
Bobby Fischer
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When I win, I'll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I'll give players a chance to beat me.
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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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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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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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I don't believe in psychology.
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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just trusting in God to give me the moves.
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I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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Chess is like war on a board
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
Bobby Fischer