As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
BOBBY FISCHERThe white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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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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All my games are real
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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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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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Chess is like war on a board
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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 consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Chess demands total concentration
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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 care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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