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I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.

Bobby Fischer

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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
Chess Player
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Chicago
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off.
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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 don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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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.
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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 system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.
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I am boring. I am boring!
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind
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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 you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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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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