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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
Bobby Fischer
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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 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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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 like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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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 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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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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