That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
BOBBY FISCHERMorphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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’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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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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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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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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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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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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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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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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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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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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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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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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