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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

Bobby Fischer

Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Losing Opponents
I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
BOBBY FISCHER

Cells Coward Mind Prison
Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don’t know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
BOBBY FISCHER

Girl Stars Writing
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Fighting Hate Winning
I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Moving Strong
Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
BOBBY FISCHER

Mean Success Winning
I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
BOBBY FISCHER

Airplanes Country Couple Showed
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
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Game Giving Success
Chess is like war on a board
BOBBY FISCHER

Boards Chess War
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
BOBBY FISCHER

Ease Humans Suffering
To get squares you have to give up squares.
BOBBY FISCHER

Giving Giving Up Squares
I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHER

Add Chess Tournaments
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
BOBBY FISCHER

Every Chess Final Game
I don’t believe in psychology.
BOBBY FISCHER

Believe Country People Psychology
All I ever want to do is just play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Want

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