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.
BOBBY FISCHERIf you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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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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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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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.
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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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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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 am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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