Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
BOBBY FISCHERI am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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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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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 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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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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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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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
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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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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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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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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 don’t listen to weakies.
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