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I 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.

Bobby Fischer

To get squares you have to give up squares.
BOBBY FISCHER

Giving Giving Up Squares
Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Giving Opponents
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Medicine Play Winning
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Ends World
When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
BOBBY FISCHER

Player Winning Years
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Long Player Winning
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Genius Play
They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
BOBBY FISCHER

Answered Ask Stupid Years
Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
BOBBY FISCHER

Done Image Nobody
I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
BOBBY FISCHER

One Remember School Thing
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Book Firsts Match Stolen
They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
BOBBY FISCHER

People Some Spoke
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ought Positional Square Until Use
I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Men Psychology
Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
BOBBY FISCHER

Against Law Reporter
All I ever want to do is just play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Want

I 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.

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