Bobby Fischer
SeFi IIII
Demographics
Gender Male
Birth Name Robert James Fischer
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Birth Date March 9, 1943
Ethnicity Jewish
Overview Ashkenazi
Nationality American
Career Chess grandmaster
Color Season Soft Autumn
Notes and Motifs
Pi ideological extremist
Chess prodigy, having won his first US Championship at fourteen
Holds the record for most US Championships won, eight, and for the only perfect score of the tournament’s history, 11-0
Was also World Chess Champion, from 1972 to 1975, when his opponent was named World Champion by a default technicality
Wrote the book My 60 Memorable Games
Patented a now-standard practice modified chess timing system
Invented chess variant Fischer random chess/Chess960
In 2005, he was given Icelandic citizenship, and lived there until his death
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Fischer: "I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess."
Fischer: "I don't remember one thing I learned in school."
Fischer: "Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck."
Fischer: "Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it."
Fischer: "My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration."
Fischer: "America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia."
Fischer: "Chess demands total concentration."
Fischer: "When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country."
Fischer: "All I want to do, ever, is play chess."
Fischer: "All that matters on the chessboard is good moves."
Fischer: "I am boring. I am boring!"
Fischer: "I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist."
Fischer: "I don't believe in psychology."
Fischer: "The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them."
Fischer: "Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa."
Fischer: "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."
Fischer: "Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books."
Fischer: "I don't listen to weakies."
Fischer: "I like the moment when I break a man's ego."
Fischer: "Chess is life."
Fischer: "I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum."