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.
BOBBY FISCHERFIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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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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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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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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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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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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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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