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.
BOBBY FISCHERI play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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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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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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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 give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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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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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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