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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
Chess Player
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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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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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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As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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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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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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I don't listen to weakies.
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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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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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I was never invited to the White House.
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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind
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She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
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