I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHERThe 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…
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I like to make them squirm.
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Chess is like war on a board
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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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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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All my games are real
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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 was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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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.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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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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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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