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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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Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.
Bobby Fischer
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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.
Bobby Fischer
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I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
Bobby Fischer
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
Bobby Fischer
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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.
Bobby Fischer
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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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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 don't believe in hero worship.
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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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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
Bobby Fischer
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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
Bobby Fischer
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
Bobby Fischer
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I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
Bobby Fischer
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
Bobby Fischer
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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
Bobby Fischer
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The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
Bobby Fischer
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I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
Bobby Fischer