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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

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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Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
Income
Books
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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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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 add status to any tournament I attend.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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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 don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Chess is like war on a board
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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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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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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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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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