In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
BOBBY FISCHERKarpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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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 don’t listen to weakies.
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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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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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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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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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 don’t believe in psychology.
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