A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
BOBBY FISCHERComputers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Chess is like war on a board
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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 love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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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 want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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