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?
BOBBY FISCHERMy opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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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 am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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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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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 have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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All my games are real
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Chess demands total concentration
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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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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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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