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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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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
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Robert James Fischer
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I was never invited to the White House.
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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 hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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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If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
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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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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in 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.
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All my games are real
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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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.
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She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.
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