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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
Chess Player
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Boby Fischer
Robert James Fischer
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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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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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Chess is like war on a board
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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 play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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I don't believe in hero worship.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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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 consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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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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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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It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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