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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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Bobby Fischer
Age: 64 †
Born: 1943
Born: March 9
Died: 2008
Died: January 18
Chess Player
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Chicago
Illinois
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.
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I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
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Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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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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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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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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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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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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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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Chess is like war on a board
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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 don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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