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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

Bobby Fischer

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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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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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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Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off.
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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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 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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The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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