Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
BOBBY FISCHERConcentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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Chess demands total concentration
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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