I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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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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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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I like to make them squirm.
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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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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