Chess demands total concentration
BOBBY FISCHERI’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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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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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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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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