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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

Bobby Fischer

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Genius Play
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHER

Every Chess Final Game
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Baseball Country Football
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Chess Player
Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
BOBBY FISCHER

Black Color Play White
In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
BOBBY FISCHER

Gambit Kings Opinion
I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Open People Principles
Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Facts Psychology
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Doubt Moving Years
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
BOBBY FISCHER

Asylums Government Political
All my games are real
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Games Real
People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHER

Fifteen People Years
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Long Player Winning
Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mean Success Winning
I don’t believe in psychology.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Country People Psychology
I don’t listen to weakies.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Listen People Weakens

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

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