Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHERBlitz chess kills your ideas.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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I like to make them squirm.
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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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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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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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 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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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting 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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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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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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