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I am boring. I am boring!

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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
Illinois
Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
Boring

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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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Chess is like war on a board
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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 remember one thing I learned in school.
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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just trusting in God to give me the moves.
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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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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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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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That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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