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 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 don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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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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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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All I ever want to do is just play chess.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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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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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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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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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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