I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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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You are never too old to play chess!
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn’t just “trusting in God” to give me the moves.
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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 don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.
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Americans really don’t know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
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They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, ‘He beat us at chess, but he’s still just an uncouth kid.’ So I decided to dress up.
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Blitz chess kills your ideas.
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.
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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.
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don’t take these things into consideration
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Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
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