Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHERDon’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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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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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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I like to make them squirm.
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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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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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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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