Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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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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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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All my games are real
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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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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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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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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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To get squares you have to give up squares.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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