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I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

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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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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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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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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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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Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's all.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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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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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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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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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind
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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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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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