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?
BOBBY FISCHERGenius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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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.
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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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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America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia…
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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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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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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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.
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
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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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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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