Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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 ever want to do is just play chess.
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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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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 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.
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First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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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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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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FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.
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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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Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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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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