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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.

Bobby Fischer

To get squares you have to give up squares.
BOBBY FISCHER

Giving Giving Up Squares
The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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Country People Robbing Years
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Night Winning
Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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Chess Facts Psychology
Tactics flow from a superior position
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Chess Game Flow Tactics
I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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Games Play Stupid
They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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Answered Ask Stupid Years
I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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Past Thinking Years
I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Add Chess Tournaments
I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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International Looks Playboy
Chess is like war on a board
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Boards Chess War
Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ought Positional Square Until Use
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
I don’t listen to weakies.
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Country Listen People Weakens
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
A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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Chess Type Come Gamer People

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