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.
BOBBY FISCHERI don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I’d like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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I don’t believe in psychology.
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Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.
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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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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.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I don’t listen to weakies.
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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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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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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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