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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.

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 am boring. I am boring!
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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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Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.
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