A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind
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I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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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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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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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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When 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.
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Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
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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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I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
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