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 FISCHERYour body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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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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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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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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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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I 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.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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