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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

Bobby Fischer

Chess demands total concentration
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Chess Demand Success
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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Player Winning Years
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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Mean Success Winning
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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Lying Moving Religious
Tactics flow from a superior position
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Chess Game Flow Tactics
I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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Games Moving Strong
I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Chess Game Player World
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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Evil United States World
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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Control Country Mean Under Yugoslavia
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Chess Genius Play
The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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Country Future Games White
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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Believe Night Winning
Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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Chess Giving Opponents
Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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Healing Humans Nothing Touch
There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Chess Involved Luck
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
BOBBY FISCHER

Manhattan People Player

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