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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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All my games are real
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
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The Russians have fixed world chess.
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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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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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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 don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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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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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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Chess demands total concentration
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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 really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
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When I win, I'll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I'll give players a chance to beat me.
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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