Bobby Fischer died last Thursday in Reykjavik, Iceland. Here is some of the wisdom of Bobby Fischer, in his own words.

• Bobby Fischer on Chess: "Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind."
• Bobby Fischer on 9/11: "Wonderful news."
• Bobby Fischer on the U.S.A.: He hoped that "the country will be taken over by the military, they'll close down all the synagogues, arrest all the Jews and execute hundreds of thousands of Jewish ringleaders."
• Bobby Fischer on the Jewish People: A "filthy lying bastard people." They kill Christian children and "their blood is used in black-magic ceremonies."
• Bobby Fischer on the holocaust: A "money-making invention."
• Bobby Fischer on Communism: He kept a locked suitcase full of pills, saying "If the Commies come to poison me, I don't want to make it easy for them."
• Bobby Fischer on life: "All I want to do, ever, is to play chess.

Bobby Fischer died of kidney failure. He was 64.