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All I ever want to do is just play chess.

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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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
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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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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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I don't believe in psychology.
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Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's all.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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 consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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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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The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
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When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
Bobby Fischer