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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
Illinois
Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
Eleven
Chess
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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 don't believe in psychology.
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All my games are real
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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
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When I win, I'll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I'll give players a chance to beat me.
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.
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I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just trusting in God to give me the moves.
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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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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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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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