FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
BOBBY FISCHERI’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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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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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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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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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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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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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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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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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You are never too old to play chess!
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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