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.
BOBBY FISCHERI like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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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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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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I don’t believe in psychology.
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Chess is like war on a board
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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