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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
Illinois
Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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Good
Eleven
Chess

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I don't believe in psychology.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!
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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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I don't listen to weakies.
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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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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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All my games are real
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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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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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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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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If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me
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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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