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!
BOBBY FISCHERThere’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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.
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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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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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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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A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I like to make them squirm.
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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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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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