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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

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
Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Done Image Nobody
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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Book Ends World
All my games are real
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Chess Games Real
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
Chess demands total concentration
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Chess Demand Success
To get squares you have to give up squares.
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Giving Giving Up Squares
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
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
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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Men People White Man
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
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Genius Know Nothing Piece
I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
BOBBY FISCHER

Doubt Moving Years
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Ease Humans Suffering
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Medicine Play Winning
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Play Playing Chess Want

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.

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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.

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