Chess is like war on a board
BOBBY FISCHERWhen 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Too 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.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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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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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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