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.
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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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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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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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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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I was never invited to the White House.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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