Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
BOBBY FISCHERToo many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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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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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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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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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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I like to make them squirm.
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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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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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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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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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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 am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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