In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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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.
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Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
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I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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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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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.
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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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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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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They’re lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They’re a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
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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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Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn’t seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn’t like that, so I decided I’d have to show them they weren’t any better than me, you know?
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