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.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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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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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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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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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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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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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