People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHERI’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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Chess demands total concentration
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Chess is like war on a board
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All my games are real
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
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I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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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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A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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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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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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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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