To get squares you have to give up squares.
BOBBY FISCHERWell, 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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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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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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.
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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You are never too old to play chess!
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to 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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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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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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Chess is like war on a board
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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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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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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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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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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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