I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHERWhen I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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Chess is like war on a board
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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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Chess demands total concentration
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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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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I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
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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 hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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