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There's no one alive I can't beat.

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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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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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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Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.
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Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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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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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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All my games are real
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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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 prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
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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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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
Bobby Fischer