Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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 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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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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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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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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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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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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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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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.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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All my games are real
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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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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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I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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