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When I was eleven, I just got good.

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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
Chess Player
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Chicago
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
Chess
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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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I am boring. I am boring!
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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 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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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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