FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
BOBBY FISCHERI 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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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?
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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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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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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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 don’t believe in psychology.
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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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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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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Chess demands total concentration
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