Blitz chess kills your ideas.
BOBBY FISCHERSteinitz 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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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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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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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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