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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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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If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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You are never too old to play chess!
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Computers are our only opponents that don’t always have no excuse when losing against me.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They’re not just persecuting me.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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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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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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I’m really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it’s not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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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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