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.
BOBBY FISCHERIf you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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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 don’t believe in psychology.
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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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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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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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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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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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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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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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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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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