I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHERNobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me…
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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Chess demands total concentration
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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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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
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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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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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So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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I love chess, and I didn’t invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead.
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I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
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I was never invited to the White House.
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Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
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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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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, ’84-’85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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