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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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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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If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
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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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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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