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.
BOBBY FISCHERBlitz chess kills your ideas.
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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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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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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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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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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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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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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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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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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Chess is like war on a board
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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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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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