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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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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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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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I was never invited to the White House.
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I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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I don't believe in psychology.
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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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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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