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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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...
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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 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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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 know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
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I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
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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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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