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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
Chess Player
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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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All I ever want to do is just 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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I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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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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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
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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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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them 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 don't listen to weakies.
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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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