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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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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 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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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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She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.
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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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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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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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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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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Chess demands total concentration
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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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Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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