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.
BOBBY FISCHERI 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.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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 don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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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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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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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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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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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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I don’t believe in psychology.
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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 am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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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 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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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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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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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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