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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
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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Eleven
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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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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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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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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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 don't believe in hero worship.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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I don't believe in psychology.
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Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.
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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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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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I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
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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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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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The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
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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 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 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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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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