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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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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.
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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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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 prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.
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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 was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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All my games are real
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They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind
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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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There's no one alive I can't beat.
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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 don't believe in psychology.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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