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.
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 to make them squirm.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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Chess is like war on a board
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You are never too old to play chess!
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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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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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I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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