I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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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 have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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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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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 main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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Chess is like war on a board
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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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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