They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
BOBBY FISCHERI play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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All my games are real
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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 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 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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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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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.
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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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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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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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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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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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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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