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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.

Bobby Fischer

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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Future Games White
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
I like to make them squirm.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Like Make Psychology
Chess is like war on a board
BOBBY FISCHER

Boards Chess War
People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHER

Fifteen People Years
The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
BOBBY FISCHER

Evil United States World
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Lying Moving Religious
I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHER

Add Chess Tournaments
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Man Pawn Scope Strong Weaknesses
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 don’t believe in psychology.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Country People Psychology
Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
BOBBY FISCHER

Black Color Play White
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

Believe Night Winning
I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHER

Country Open People Principles
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Moving Psychology
Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
BOBBY FISCHER

Against Law Reporter

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