Blitz chess kills your ideas.
BOBBY FISCHERPsychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I add status to any tournament I attend.
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Chess demands total concentration
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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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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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The Russians have held my title for ten years and they’re going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They’re going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
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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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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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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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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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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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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 like to make them squirm.
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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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