Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
BOBBY FISCHERA lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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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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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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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 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 consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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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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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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Chess is like war on a board
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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You are never too old to play chess!
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