In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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All my games are real
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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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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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 remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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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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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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Chess demands total concentration
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