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I don't believe in psychology.

Bobby Fischer

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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
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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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I don't listen to weakies.
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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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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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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps 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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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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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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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
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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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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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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 don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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