Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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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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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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You are never too old to play chess!
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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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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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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