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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
Kills
Chess
Ideas

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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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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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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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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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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 know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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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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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
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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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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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I was never invited to the White House.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.
Bobby Fischer