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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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I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
Bobby Fischer
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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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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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I am boring. I am boring!
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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I don't believe in psychology.
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just trusting in God to give me the moves.
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Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.
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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 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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
Bobby Fischer