A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
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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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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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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Well, I’m not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn’t interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they’re a phony, I just don’t bother with them, that’s all.
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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
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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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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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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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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent’s position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
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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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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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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I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
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