I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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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.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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