I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
BOBBY FISCHERNothing is so healing as the human touch.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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Chess is like war on a board
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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 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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Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
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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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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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