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Chess demands total concentration

Bobby Fischer

A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
BOBBY FISCHER

Memories Strong Success
Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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Against Law Reporter
In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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Champion Chess Player
I don’t believe in psychology.
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Believe Country People Psychology
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
There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Chess Involved Luck
I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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Cells Coward Mind Prison
Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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Chess Facts Psychology
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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Medicine Play Winning
I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Add Chess Tournaments
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
Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Kids People
They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
BOBBY FISCHER

Bustard Dirty Lying People
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
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
If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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Games Tragedy Winning

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