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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?

Bobby Fischer

So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
BOBBY FISCHER

Back Brought Dead Opening
When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
BOBBY FISCHER

Baseball Country Football
Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Genius Morphy Probably
Tactics flow from a superior position
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Flow Tactics
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
BOBBY FISCHER

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

Chess Next Play
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Decided Dress Priding Themselves
Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mean Success Winning
I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Games Think Thinking
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
BOBBY FISCHER

Blitz Chess Ideas
I like to make them squirm.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Like Make Psychology
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Girl Stars Writing
Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ought Positional Square Until Use
My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
BOBBY FISCHER

Death Expose Life Struggle World
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
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
BOBBY FISCHER

Asylums Government Political

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