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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 am boring. I am boring!
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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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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 play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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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I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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