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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.

Bobby Fischer

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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Half Player
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
BOBBY FISCHER

Asylums Government Political
I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHER

Add Chess Tournaments
Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
BOBBY FISCHER

Girl Stars Writing
I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
BOBBY FISCHER

Death Out Want Wiped
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Man Pawn Scope Strong Weaknesses
Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Next Play
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Chess Player
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Freedom Late Order Speech Too
FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Titles World
I don’t believe in psychology.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Country People Psychology
The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country People Robbing Years
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Baseball Country Football
Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
BOBBY FISCHER

Black Color Play White
I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
BOBBY FISCHER

Bigs Care Games
That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Day Game Learning Next

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