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 FISCHERAll I ever want to do is just play chess.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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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.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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