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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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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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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 don't believe in hero worship.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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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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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 add status to any tournament I attend.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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All my games are real
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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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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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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