I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
BOBBY FISCHERChess demands total concentration
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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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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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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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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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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Well, 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.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
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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 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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