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 FISCHERYou are never too old to play chess!
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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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Chess is like war on a board
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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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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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 like to make them squirm.
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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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