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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

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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Book Firsts Match Stolen
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
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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Medicine Play Winning
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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Memories Strong Success
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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Chess Genius Know Nothing Piece
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Ease Humans Suffering
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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Chess Home Morning
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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Airplanes Country Couple Showed
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Chess Genius Play
I don’t listen to weakies.
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Country Listen People Weakens
I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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Chess Game Destroy Love People
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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Baseball Country Football
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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Girl Stars Writing
There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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Games Half Player
My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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Death Expose Life Struggle World
I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Add Chess Tournaments
In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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Gambit Kings Opinion
These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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Contempt Dog Lowest Runner
Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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Chess Game Losing Thinking
I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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Facts Matter Today
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
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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Book Dog Games Immoral Prearranged Unethical
All my games are real
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Chess Games Real
Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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Chess Thinking World
Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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Chess Next Play
Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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Mind Sometimes Stills
I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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Country Open People Principles

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.

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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.

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