Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t listen to weakies.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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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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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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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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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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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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