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.
BOBBY FISCHERPsychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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The 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.
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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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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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