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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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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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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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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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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
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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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I don't believe in hero worship.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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I am boring. I am boring!
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in 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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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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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 add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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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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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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