They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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Chess demands total concentration
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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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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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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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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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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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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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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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