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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 really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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I am boring. I am boring!
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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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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 consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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All my games are real
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Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's all.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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 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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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 is like war on a board
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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 don't listen to weakies.
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