I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
BOBBY FISCHERMorphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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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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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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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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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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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