In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
BOBBY FISCHERTo get squares you have to give up squares.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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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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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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