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Blitz chess kills your ideas.

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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
Blitz
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Ideas

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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.
Bobby Fischer
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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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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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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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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
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If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me
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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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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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 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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I don't believe in hero worship.
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Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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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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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!
Bobby Fischer