Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
BOBBY FISCHERI 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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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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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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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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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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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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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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