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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

Bobby Fischer

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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Interested Keep Old Position
Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ought Positional Square Until Use
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Player Winning Years
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…
BOBBY FISCHER

Belong Country Everybody Men
I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
BOBBY FISCHER

Airplanes Country Couple Showed
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Play Stupid
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Moving Psychology
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Mistake Moving
All I ever want to do is just play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Want
FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Titles World
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
BOBBY FISCHER

Memories Strong Success
The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
BOBBY FISCHER

Play Winning Years
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Cells Coward Mind Prison
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Ease Humans Suffering
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Chess World
These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
BOBBY FISCHER

Contempt Dog Lowest Runner

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

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