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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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Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
Eleven
Chess
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Good

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I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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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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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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I was never invited to the White House.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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 grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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All my games are real
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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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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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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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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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