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.
BOBBY FISCHERI studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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You are never too old to play chess!
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I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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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.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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I like to make them squirm.
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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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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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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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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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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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