I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
BOBBY FISCHERComputers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I love the game – and I hate the Russians because they’ve almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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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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The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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