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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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I was never invited to the White House.
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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 turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
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That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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I don't believe in psychology.
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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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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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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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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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I don't believe in hero worship.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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 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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Chess is like war on a board
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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 add status to any tournament I attend.
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Chess demands total concentration
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