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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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I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
Bobby Fischer
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Chess is like war on a board
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I don't believe in psychology.
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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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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 was never invited to the White House.
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Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.
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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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
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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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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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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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I add status to any tournament I attend.
Bobby Fischer