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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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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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Alekhine
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Thirties
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Twenties
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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 believe in hero worship.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
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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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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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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's all.
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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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As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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I don't believe in psychology.
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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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