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Robert James Fischer, dit Bobby Fischer, né le 9 mars 1943 à Chicago aux États-Unis et mort le 17 janvier 2008 à Reykjavik en Islande, est un joueur d'échecs américain, naturalisé islandais en 2005.

Champion des États-Unis à quatorze ans en 1957-1958, il devient champion du monde en 1972 en remportant, sur fond de guerre froide, le « match du siècle » à Reykjavik face au Soviétique Boris Spassky.

Il contribua de façon décisive, par ses revendications lors des tournois, à l'amélioration de la condition de joueur d'échecs professionnel, tant du point de vue financier que de l'organisation matérielle des tournois.

Après s'être retiré de toutes les compétitions en 1972, Fischer disputa en 1992, à Sveti Stefan et à Belgrade, pendant les guerres de Yougoslavie, un match revanche contre son adversaire de 1972, Boris Spassky, en violation de l'embargo proclamé par le département d'État américain. Menacé de poursuites par son pays, il termina sa vie en exil ; d'abord en Hongrie, puis au Japon, de janvier 2000 à mars 2005, et enfin en Islande, de 2005 à 2008. Il y multiplia les déclarations antisémites et anti-américaines.

✵ 9. mars 1943 – 17. janvier 2008   •   Autres noms Роберт Джеймс Фишер
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“I'm very concerned because I think the Jews want to drive the elephants to extinction because the trunk of an elephant reminds them of an uncircumcised penis. I'm absolutely serious about that… Jews are sick, they're mental cases.”

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Source: Radio Interview, July 6 2001 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_18_1.MP3

“The Jews have been hardened against Christ, against decency for thousands of years… They're gonna have to be annihilated, Eugene.”

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Speaking to Eugene Torre, Radio Interview, May 24 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_07_1.MP3
1990s

“I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.”

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Interview by William Lombardy, 1972 http://www.bobby-fischer.net/Bobby_Fischer_Articles7.html
1970s

“I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.”

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1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

“I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.”

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1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

“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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Radio Interview, May 24 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_07_3.MP3
1990s

“I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.”

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1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

“Church members shouldn't let themselves be confused. They begin not trusting in their own judgment, and then they're finished. That's a terrible, terrible thing. First, they get conducted in with a nice sweet program, no money, everything free, free, free. And then they get sucked in, and suddenly a few lies get mixed in. They are told that their human nature is wicked and these nice people who gave them all these things wouldn't be lying to them, would they? And then I think once you start distrusting your own mind you're finished. From there you just get more and more confused. Once you think that your own mind is not your friend any more-your own conscience and your own mind is not your friend-then I think you are on your way to insanity. You have been stripped bare. All your defenses are gone.”

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1970s, BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)

“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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1970s, BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)

“I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.”

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Source: In Chess Digest Magazine, Vol. 4 (1971), p. 263

“The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian… It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.”

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Interview en-route to Iceland, March 24 2005 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QryuMf8qZ0g
2000s

“I have a minus score (against Spassky). I lost 3 and drew 2. I was better than him when I lost those games. I pressed for the win. My overall tournament record is much better than his. I'm not afraid of him, he's afraid of me.”

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Interview prior to world championship match, 1972 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnAQN_iwNoA
1970s

“I had some personal problems, and I started listening to a lot of radio ministers. I listened every Sunday all day, flipping the dial up and back. So, I heard just about every guy on Sunday. And then I heard Mr. Armstrong, and I said, "Ah, God has finally shown me the one, I guess."”

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1970s, BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)

“The United States is evil. There's this axis of evil. What about the allies of evil – the United States, England, Japan, Australia? These are the evildoers.”

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Press conference in Iceland, March 25 2005 http://www.bobby-fischer.net/Fischer_clips_hair_but_not_views.htm
2000s

“White can always play differently, in which case he merely loses differently.”

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On his eponymous defense to the King's Gambit. A bust to the King's Gambit http://www.chesscafe.com/text/bust.pdf (1960)
1960s

“Patzer sees a check, gives a check.”

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1960s, My 60 Memorable Games (1969)

“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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Radio Interview, January 27 2002 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_20_1.MP3
2000s

“I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.”

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1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

“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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1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

“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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Radio Interview, July 6 2001 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_18_3.MP3
2000s

“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.”

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Radio Interview, June 27 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_08_3.MP3
1990s

“In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.”

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A bust to the King's Gambit http://academicchess.org/images/pdf/chessgames/fischerbust.pdf (1960)
1960s

“Part Jewish. My mother is Jewish.”

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responding to the question "You're Jewish, aren't you?"
1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

“I suggest rather than fraudulently misrepresenting me to be a Jew
.. you try to promote your religion on its own merits--if indeed it has any!”

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1980s, 1984 letter to Encyclopedia Judaica
Source: from 2nd paragraph, verified December 2014 article by Saul Jay Singer of JewishPress.com https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/fischer-and-spassky-two-infamous-jewish-anti-semites/2014/12/26/

“Knowing what I do about Judaism, I was naturally distressed to see that you have erroneously featured me as a Jew
.. I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.”

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1980s, 1984 letter to Encyclopedia Judaica
Source: from 1st paragraph, verified page 137 of "White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard" by Daniel Johnson, published 2008 https://books.google.ca/books?id=7Lzd7SaQA_YC&pg=PA137

“Best by test.”

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Bobby Fischer livre My 60 Memorable Games

1960s, My 60 Memorable Games (1969)

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