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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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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
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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 know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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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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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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All my games are real
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.
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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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 play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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I was never invited to the White House.
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