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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.

Bobby Fischer

I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Player World
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Ends World
I was never invited to the White House.
BOBBY FISCHER

House Invited White
If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Tragedy Winning
Chess demands total concentration
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Demand Success
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
BOBBY FISCHER

Memories Strong Success
I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
BOBBY FISCHER

Doubt Moving Years
Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Mind Training
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
BOBBY FISCHER

Manhattan People Player
I like to make them squirm.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Like Make Psychology
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
BOBBY FISCHER

Blitz Chess Ideas
Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Next Play
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
BOBBY FISCHER

Men People White Man
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Home Morning
If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
BOBBY FISCHER

Alekhine Games Play Seen
Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
BOBBY FISCHER

Healing Humans Nothing Touch

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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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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