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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.

Bobby Fischer

I add status to any tournament I attend.
BOBBY FISCHER

Add Chess Tournaments
I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
BOBBY FISCHER

Games Moving Strong
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
BOBBY FISCHER

Control Country Mean Under Yugoslavia
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.
BOBBY FISCHER

Man Pawn Scope Strong Weaknesses
The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
BOBBY FISCHER

Champion Chess World
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
There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Involved Luck
I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Games Think Thinking
People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
BOBBY FISCHER

Fifteen People Years
It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Littles Machines
Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
BOBBY FISCHER

Done Image Nobody
All I ever want to do is just play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Play Want
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
BOBBY FISCHER

Asylums Government Political
I don’t care! I don’t have to show anybody my games just because they’re a big shot!
BOBBY FISCHER

Bigs Care Games
Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
BOBBY FISCHER

Chess Facts Psychology
So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
BOBBY FISCHER

Back Brought Dead Opening

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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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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