You are never too old to play chess!
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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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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 have never opened with the QP – on principle.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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 like to make them squirm.
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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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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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