A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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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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I like to make them squirm.
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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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The 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.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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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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