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I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

Bobby Fischer

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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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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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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 don't believe in hero worship.
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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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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 know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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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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Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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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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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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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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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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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player
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Chess demands total concentration
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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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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