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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
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
Blitz
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I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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I don't listen to weakies.
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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 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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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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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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 believe in hero worship.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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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