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The Russians have fixed world chess.

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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
Chess
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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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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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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
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I don't believe in psychology.
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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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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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I don't listen to weakies.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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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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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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