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 FISCHERTeach 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?
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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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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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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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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.
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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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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Chess is like war on a board
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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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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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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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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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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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?
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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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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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