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.
BOBBY FISCHEROur 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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I was never invited to the White House.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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I like to make them squirm.
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