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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
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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Chess is like war on a board
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I was never invited to the White House.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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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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All my games are real
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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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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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