That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
BOBBY FISCHERWell, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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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 have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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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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I don’t listen to weakies.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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