If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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 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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All my games are real
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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Tactics flow from a superior position
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I’m not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I’m the best. You don’t need a match to prove it.
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It’s little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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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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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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