Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
BOBBY FISCHERI was never invited to the White House.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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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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A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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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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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’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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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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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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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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