The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
BOBBY FISCHERKarpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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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 don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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I like to make them squirm.
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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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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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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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 win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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