I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHERAmerica is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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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 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.
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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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 like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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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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.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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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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