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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

Bobby Fischer

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHER

Fifteen People Years
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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Chess Crush Game War
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Ends World
Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Facts Psychology
Tactics flow from a superior position
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Flow Tactics
It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Littles Machines
Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
BOBBY FISCHER

Long Player Winning
I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Yugoslavia
I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Interested Keep Old Position
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Play Playing Chess Want
Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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Chess Genius Morphy Probably
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
BOBBY FISCHER

Control Country Mean Under Yugoslavia
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Mistake Moving
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Myself Stopped Struggle Whole World
Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Losing Thinking
They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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Decided Dress Priding Themselves

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