Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
BOBBY FISCHERThere 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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Chess is like war on a board
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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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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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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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