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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.

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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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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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There's no one alive I can't beat.
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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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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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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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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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Chess demands total concentration
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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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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All my games are real
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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 was never invited to the White House.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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