I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
BOBBY FISCHERThe 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.
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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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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