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.
This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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.
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.
I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
![Bobby Fischer Quote - I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/i-have-nothing-to-do-with-politics-i-came-here-yug-683x1024.jpg)
