They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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Chess is like war on a board
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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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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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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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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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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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