Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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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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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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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.
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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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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
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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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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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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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