I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
BOBBY FISCHERThe main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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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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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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