All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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.
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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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I like to make them squirm.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
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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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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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When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s 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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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
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