Chess demands total concentration
BOBBY FISCHERI 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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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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…
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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