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Blitz chess kills your ideas.

Bobby Fischer

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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
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
Blitz
Kills
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Ideas

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Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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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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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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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 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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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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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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I was never invited to the White House.
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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. I believe in good moves
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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All my games are real
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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Chess is like war on a board
Bobby Fischer