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.
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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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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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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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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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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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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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 have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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