Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
BOBBY FISCHERI studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There’s no doubt of it in my mind.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
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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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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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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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 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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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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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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