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I was never invited to the White House.

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
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
Invited
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House
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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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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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 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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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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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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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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