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.
BOBBY FISCHERNothing is so healing as the human touch.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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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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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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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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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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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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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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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 object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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