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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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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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 play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than 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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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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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 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 don't believe in hero worship.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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