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When I was eleven, I just got good.

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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Chicago
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
Good
Eleven
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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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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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I don't believe in psychology.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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I don't listen to weakies.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.
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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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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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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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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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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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