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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
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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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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The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.
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All my games are real
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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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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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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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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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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I don't believe in psychology.
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If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me
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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Chess is like war on a board
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