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.
BOBBY FISCHERI am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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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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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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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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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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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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Chess is like war on a board
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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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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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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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