I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
BOBBY FISCHERIt’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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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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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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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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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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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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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.
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The 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.
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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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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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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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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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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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