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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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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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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.
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I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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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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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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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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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 add status to any tournament I attend.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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 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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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!
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Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.
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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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