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Bobby Fischer

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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Thinking World
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Ends World
I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
BOBBY FISCHER

Past Thinking Years
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mean Phony Thinking
Chess is like war on a board
BOBBY FISCHER

Boards Chess War
Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Next Play
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Mistake Moving
These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
BOBBY FISCHER

Contempt Dog Lowest Runner
I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Games Think Thinking
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
BOBBY FISCHER

Manhattan People Player
The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Chess World
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Different Garbage Genius Happen Play
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
BOBBY FISCHER

Memories Strong Success
FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Titles World
I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
BOBBY FISCHER

Cells Coward Mind Prison
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?
BOBBY FISCHER

Black Color Play White

Tactics flow from a superior position

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