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I don't believe in psychology.

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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
Chess Player
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Chicago
Illinois
Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
Psychology
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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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I don't listen to weakies.
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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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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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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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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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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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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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All my games are real
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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