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 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.
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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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I 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.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than 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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You are never too old to play chess!
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at 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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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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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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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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