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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to 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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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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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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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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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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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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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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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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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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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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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