Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
BOBBY FISCHERWhen 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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 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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I don’t believe in psychology.
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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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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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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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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 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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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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The 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…
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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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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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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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