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.
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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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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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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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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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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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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Chess is like war on a board
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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