I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHERThis 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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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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All my games are real
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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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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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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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Chess is like war on a board
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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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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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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 have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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